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PIOS ONE - The Creative Concept

The PIOS ONE is entering the scene as a computer which provides newest technology with up-to-date performance characteristics and oeconomic use of resources. This computer is affordable by everyone and will make it fun again to use a computer, following the motto

No RISC - no fun


Hardware

The Hardware impresses by its modular concept, which covers the performance spectrum from home use up to workstations. A later upgrade of the entry model to the top model is possible without problems and at no bigger expenses.

The PIOS ONE uses the PowerPC family of microprocessors from companies Motorola, IBM, and Apple. The high engineering capacity of these companies assures these products a future with permanent progress and adaptation to all coming demands. This technology promises the full bandwidth of performance and a secure future with well defined development paths for the coming years, and all this at reasonable prices.



Generally, RISC processors define the state of art in microprocessor technology. RISC stands for Reduced Instruction Set Computer. These processors don't offer the programmer as many commands as older CISC processors (Complex Instruction Set Computer), but thus the hardware of these processors becomes so much simpler that you can achieve much more speed and thus computing performance compared to a CISC processor at comparable hardware costs. Further typical characteristics of RISC processors are terms like superscalarity and pipelined architecture.

Particularly the PowerPC processors are available in a whole family of versions. Thus you can find the optimal processor model for every kind of application. Also the processors are easily exchangeable among each other, so that it's easy to build an upgradable computer which can be equipped with a more powerful processor model later. For the PowerPC family, there exist concrete plans for the next years for their further development. Especially optimized versions for Multimedia applications and for extremely high computing power are announced.

More about Motorola PowerPC Chips


Software

The user will be able to choose among several alternatives for the Operating System Software, which all will be part of the normal shipment:

BeOS
pOS

Linux

BeOS by company Be Inc. is a new, innovative operating system, which supports up-to-date concepts like Multithreading and Multiprocessing. In "Multithreading", each application program is separated into several parallel running "threads" on their own. Thus the software can make optimal use of "Multiprocessing", which means that several microprocessors run simultaneously in a computer independently.
More info about PIOS ONE and BeOS

pOS by company proDAD is an operating system, which builds the bridge to the AMIGA world. Thus it is an extremely fast, compact, and efficient operating system which promises to get the maximum performance out of the up-to-date RISC hardware.
More info about PIOS ONE and pOS

Linux is a platform independent operating system for highest demands, for experts.


Developer Program

Especially for the PIOS ONE, but also for purchasers of the BeBox, PIOS offers Developer Support. Besides getting newest and most detailed informationen, you can also purchase computers directly. In the case of the PIOS ONE, registered developers can already order devices of the Null Series.

Availability

At first the device will be built in a Null Series for developers. Orders can already be placed.

The completed system will be shown for the first time at CeBIT 97 and be available probably from May/June 1997. The total price for the entry model will be around US$ 1000!

Distribution will be handled through world wide distribution centers and existing or newly acquired dealer networks.

More detailed information is available from
PIOS Computer AG
Be Inc.
ProDAD Software


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