PowerLogix Suit Against Total Impact's G3 cards

When contacted about Mactell's statement issued and posted here on Friday 2/6, Robert Jagitsch, President of PowerLogix replied:

"The injunction against Total Impact will prevent Mactell from receiving any more product. Total Impact is under court order to tell Mactell to stop shipping. If they do not, they will be in contempt of court and will be subject to further sanctions.

Mactell does have direct legal issues with PowerLogix because they have been shipping both unaltered and altered copies of our "G3 Cache Control" software which is registered and copyrighted with the US Copyright Office (registration number TX4576884.) Software is licensed, not sold (just look at any copy of MacOS or Windows95 with all the legal mumbo jumbo.) Mactell never had a license directly or indirectly with PowerLogix for the software. Total Impact never had a license for the software either, and has no right to distribute it in any way, including sublicensing it to Mactell. Both companies are subject to actual and statutory damages for copyright violations."

The hearing is today. Keep tuned.

According to MacWEEK, Interex released its XLR8 G3 CPU upgrade cards ranging from $799 for a 233MHz CPU with 512K cache operating at 117MHz to $1,999 for a 300MHz model with 1 MB cache operating at 200 MHz. The cards are tunable with 16 different settings to tweak performance.

Reader Mike Engleman pointed out a site claiming to be developing a new Mac OS named InfiniteOS. Remember the German company that promised same and never delivered?

InfiniteOS claims to have these feaures at present:

• Pre-emptive Multitasking
• Protected Memory
• SCSI support
• Primitive Graphics support
• Sound support
• HFS file system support
• Floppy support
• Virtual Memory
• Low-level debugger
• Support for PCI PowerMacs including the G3

These features are being developed:

• Graphical User Interface (GUI)
• HFS+ file system support
• Public development SDK

Clicking the Download link gives one a 116K file (certainly not an OS) with four files, an InfiniteOS application, a kernel extension, a Progress.log and a ReadMe. I had enough abandon to download the folder but not to run the application.

Reader Chuck Heath reminded me that MacCPU has a good explanatory page for NuBus 6100, 7100 and 8100 G3 upgrade cards.

Chuck Heath further notes Anthony Rutkowski's Internet Trends. It has a very interesting analysis of web directions.