New Hyperion Entertainment Website http://a-eon.com/ - The Mystery Continues

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Why not? It's one of the coolest letters in the alphabet :lol:

Actually I hate X. I also hate Q. They do not represent any speech sounds in English which cannot more accurately be represented with other letters.

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moto

[motorollin]

Pah, you'll be spelling colour without the 'u' next...

No, 'u' has a purpose in words like 'colour'.

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[motorollin]

Also, I think the above statement is incorrect. For instance, 'Q' cannot be more accurately represented as 'kw' since by definition it is one letter assigned to specifically represent that sound rather than using two other letters to do so. Maybe your objection should be that they may be represented using compounds of other letters and are therefore redundant

But /kw/ is two speech sounds, in just the same way that /st/ is two speech sounds and /str/ is three speech sounds. If we're going to allow multiple phonemes to collapse into single graphemes, as in /kw/ -> 'q', then why not create a letter for every cluster which exists in the English language?

[motorollin]

That's be logical and not quirky and therefore not befitting of our great nation of eccentrics.

Despite my previous comments, I do actually somewhat agree with you. But the OCD half of my brain wants the English alphabet to be scrapped in favour of the IPA

[motorollin]

@motorollin

have you got a link for the thread referenced in your signature??

Yes, it was the "Future of amiga.org" thread.

http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=48971

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@motorollin

Maybe you can make your avatar more topical by inserting "is X" before the question mark

Maybe later. Now stop distracting me with entertaining and borderline intellectual discussion. My finals start tomorrow and I'm not ready :nervous:

[motorollin]

That's the best way to be. Stops you being overconfident and avoids the "making a total balls up without a valid excuse" scenario.

I once sat in an exam and had a complete and total brainwipe right there in the examination hall, despite having spent long and tedious hours locking the subject down with rigorous revision. Not my finest hour, but I hope I amused the examiner with my five haikus explaining the issue.

So basically, if I don't say I'm ready then I won't look like a total twadger when I fail? :lol:

Check check the avatar...

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[motorollin]

Hmmm: PWRficient

Ok, this is wikipedia, but have a gander...

But according to the history, it's been on that page in one form or another since 2007.

[motorollin]

True, but you don't think this motherboard has appeared overnight, right? I'm not saying that the wiki article is talking about this particular system, of course.

Sure, but given how gradually they're feeding us the information now, when it's presumably about to launch, I would be surprised if that information on Wikipedia referred to this actual board (or whatever it is). I suspect that information is outdated.

The interesting thing about PWRficient is that they aren't made by IBM or Motorola and are aimed at low power embedded systems where there is presently a fair bit of competition so maybe the price will be correspondingly lower.

Lets hope so

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@moto

What I was suggesting is that perhaps PWRficient is the CPU choice, nothing about the board in particular. The mention on the wiki page may relate to a time when a future PPC processor was selected. With the best will in the world, 2 years isn't a long time from choosing a CPU, ensuring OS compatibility and eventually releasing a system based on it.

OIC. Well lets hope they tell us soon

[motorollin]

I do also wonder about what the card-slot in the corner is for, but maybe the basic system settings and files will be stored on a flash card or something?

Kickstart

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moto

[motorollin]

I don't see why they wouldn't just load kickstart from disk like all existing OS4.x systems.

Nah, stick it on a chip for old times' sake

[motorollin]

Given that something exciting is possibly about to happen in Amigaland, I think it might be time to resurrect this:

"Only Amiga Makes It Possible - motorollin feat. Doomy

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moto

[motorollin]

Oh admit it, you were dancing around your bedroom in nothing but your pants, singing along into a hairbrush!

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[motorollin]

You did what to Doomy now?

That was my attempt to emulate the nomenclature of those bloody awful music TV channels. "Clubland TV" springs to mind as they invariably play it at the gym. It does the trick though, as imagining that I am running away from it usually pushes me further.

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moto

[motorollin]

It's a computer we're making, not just a motherboard

This is getting exciting now!

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moto