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Not sure if someone posted this yet, from the src of A-eon Page 6:

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As cold as death. Never thirsty, ever drinking, All in mail, never clinking. ... What? Oh... well yeah. Ok, so I couldn't think of anything. There was going to be a nice picture here called "hidden.png" but it got put up a day too soon and some clever clogs found it. ... Nope, that's it. You've had your lot. It's not my fault someone already found it. ... No, really. You can stop reading the source code now, we're done for today. Don't you people have homes to go to? ... Seriously. We're done, see you tomorrow. Go out and have fun. Watch a movie! Mmmm, popcorn. ... Hmm? Still here? Oh well, as we're talking about movies, have you seen Avatar yet? I haven't. Been looking forward to it a while, but things keep getting in the way. You know, things like this web site. It's not easy thinking up puzzles to keep you lot amused, you know! I was going to go yesterday. Had it all planned, trip to the cinema with my girlfriend. Unfortunately she wasn't feeling too well, so we had to cancel. I should give her a call, see how she's doing. ... Ah, she's feeling much better. Looks like we're on for the cinema tomorrow. That's good. ... Woah! You're still here? I went and got lunch, I thought you'd be gone by the time I got back. I have to admit I admire your persistence, but we really are done. No more puzzles. Come back tomorrow, I'll have something really meaty for you then, I promise. ... Oooooh Okay, you've twisted my arm. I'll think up something quick for you to puzzle over. ... Ok, here it comes. It's a good 'un... Psych! Ha ha! I was kidding. ... Actually I was kidding about kidding. Here it is. An age from the page of the Book of Law, Shall come to know an Olympian foe; Greek strife (formerly) once in, now outside, A Lazarus snatched, to join the ride. Too vague? Too cryptic? Well it was off the cuff, you know. I've got to be careful what I reveal. ... Okay, okay. You want something more solid? Hrm. I can't really say much here. So let me just address a few rumours. No, you haven't seen this motherboard before. Yes, it's a desktop. No, the A-EON partners didn't design the Nemo board in their garages, and no it's not an evaluation board! Goodness. It was designed by a highly experienced design team to A-EON's specifications. Yes, it's high-end hardware. No, it doesn't have the number of cores you are thinking of. Whatever number you are thinking of. At least, not necessarily. No, we don't have a release date. Yes, it will be fairly soon. Yes, the software team does have functioning boards to work on already. Yes, it is the most powerful AmigaOS hardware ever. By a big margin. I did say high-end. Yes, it will come with a case. It's a computer we're making, not just a motherboard. Yes, Nemo IS just the start. ... What? What now? Not obscure enough? Sigh... Well people have been asking for some solid info. A joke can only go so far, and we will be revealing all we can currently reveal tomorrow. Anyway, what about that thing with the number of cores? Come on! That was pretty obscure. Look, just go back a page, look at the source there. Far more fun. Solve that charade riddle and you'll know a lot more about Xena. And with that, I am gone. Good luck, have fun!

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Everyone got bored and left the party...

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@tbreeden

The whole thing sounds a lot more like a cryptic crossword puzzle to me - creating the solution from component puzzle parts.

To start just look at the very first page
X
Genesis

To follow, begin where Nemo entered into a rage
I can see several instances in 20,000 leagues, but no obvious candidate for the solution.

Then add to that what the Phoenicians used to see,
The phoenicians used the pole star (Polaris) in Ursa Major to navigate around Africa maybe "N" ie North?).
Also, famous for glass production, but not optics from what I can see.
Tries to remember Sid Meier's Civ... can't remember

The end was found, fricatively wound, in the branches of the very first tree.
The word fricative indicates a hard consonant sound. My guess would be "k" as in "snake"

My whole was born in a place where a Celtic river was by Saxons, crossed,
Irish or scottish river presumably (celtic).
???

A new incarnation of a parallel, once thought lost.
???

Still no closer though...

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Yes it was posted here a few pages back

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X is the letter for Th in the Phoenician alphabet...

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Comments from 6.html
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What? Oh... well yeah. Ok, so I couldn't think of anything. There was going to be a nice picture here called "hidden.png" but it got put up a day too soon and some clever clogs found it.

The hidden.png


As you can see an above post by @DBAlex, this came out before it should have, and so may not have to do with a dual core PPC, but rather be related to the latest news on X.

Can this be a task list for the XMOS XCore chips I mentioned earlier?
Can anyone figure out if the values would match?

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@Cameraman

taken from the source of the first A-eon page
Site content (c)2009 by Electric Voodoo for Hyperion Entertainment / A-Eon

The River Stour, The name Stour derives from the Celtic sturr meaning "strong".

The River Stour runs through Bury St Edmunds which is where Anthony Moorley, the second A-Eon investor lives.

Does this tie into the line " My Whole was born in a place where a celtic river was by saxons crossed" ?

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@MichaelMerkel

"so what exactly is the MAP now?"

AOS support for the new board (it could mean 64bit and multicore).

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Then add to that what the Phoenicians used to see

Ship? Chip?

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please, don't destroy the forum layout, use the carriage return key on your keyboard. /tomazkid

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@BooBoo

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BooBoo wrote: OS5 based on linux -Some of these replys Baha...etc

Point taken, could you please edit your post so it doesn't screwq up the whole page formatting.

Thanks

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@BooBoo
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BooBoo wrote: OS5 based on linux -Some of these replys

and the first thing you do, is joining the club of stupid posts yourself- bravo.
pot calls kettle black.

/stone

"The end was found, fricatively wound, in the branches of the very first tree."
Apple? Is the Apple logo "fricatively wound"? Does that count?

@all

here it is: http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2009/10/22/47240/xmos-says-programmability-has-no-penalty.htm




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The XCore processor shown in Figure 1 runs up to 8 separate tasks (threads) in round-robin fashion. At a maximum CPU speed of 400MHz these tasks appear virtually concurrent.

/me runs

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@vr00mfondel

That makes sense!

"Gigantkiller" ..

Goliath ??

http://www.a-eon.com/gfx/hidden.png

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@DBAlex

An age from the page of the Book of Law,
Shall come to know an Olympian foe;
Greek strife (formerly) once in, now outside,
A Lazarus snatched, to join the ride.


This strikes me as if they are saying they obtained a disciple to assist with this work. The book of law = Commodore? Always run by the rules? Who at Commodore was a hardware "disciple"?
Dave Haynie?


Just wondering....

Scott

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@Alkaron

Goliath was the Giant, so giantkiller would be David.
(not that this helps with anything)

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except that David is short for Dave ^^

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