Phase5 Digital Products was a computer hardware manufacturer that made boards consisting of an Amiga computer: the A1200, A3000 or A4000, accompanied by a PowerPC/m68k accelerator board: the BlizzardPPC or CyberStormPPC. The company went out of business in 2000, after an announcement on July 22nd, 1999 with QNX Software Systems that they intended to build an alternative to the official Amiga solution of the time. A computer is a device or machine for processing information from data according to a program — a compiled list of instructions. ... In computing, Amiga is a range of home/personal computers primarily using the Motorola 68000 processor family, whose development started in 1982, initially as a game machine. ... QNX (pronounced either Q-N-X or Q-nix) is a commercial POSIX-compliant Unix-like real-time operating system, aimed primarily at the embedded systems market. ...
The most common current reference to Phase5 is in the Linux port to the APUS computer. Tux, a cartoon penguin frequently featured sitting, is the official Linux mascot. ...
Source model: Closed source (Darwin foundation is open source)
and MorphOS MorphOS is a mixed proprietary and open source operating system produced by several developers for the PegasosPPC hardware platform, as well as the already existing PowerPC accelerator boards for the Amiga, produced by Phase5.
It currently runs only on PowerPC processors by Motorola, IBM, and mobileGT, while still supporting the original AmigaOS MC680x0 applications via its proprietary task-based emulation solution and most of the newer, PPC/AmigaOS applications using API wrappers.
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