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

[Karlos]

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, why not create a letter for every cluster which exists in the English language?

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

[Karlos]

@motorollin

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

[Karlos]

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

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.

[Karlos]

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

That's the intended failsaife, yeah

Check check the avatar...

Perfik

[Karlos]

Once the aw.net thread hits 1000, Xoops they did it again?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvtDHH_IfP8

Wow, and I thought the song was bad enough. That's obviously just the tip of the ice-berg, considering the video :lol:

Still, score one to vbulletin; long threads are less of an issue for the server.

[Karlos]

Source code of 4.js, included in 4.html:

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var pattern3=/(titan|e600|8641D|8640D|QorIQ|P2020|p4080|pa6t|970mp|83290|pwrficient)/i;
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Hmmm: PWRficient

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

[Karlos]

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.

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.

[Karlos]

@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.

[Karlos]

PWRficient  was made by P.A. Semi. P.A. Semi was bought by Apple in 2008 and no longer exists.

Hmm, OK, perhaps that's a dead-end line of speculation then.

[Karlos]

Just been reading up on the apple buyout. Even for apple, 278M USD is a hell of a lot of cash to spend on a fabless chip company just to close it down. I simply can't imagine what apple, having gone intel already, would want with 2GHz 64-bit PPC processors with a sub 20W power draw...

*cough*appletv*cough*

[Karlos]

Well, whatever But I doubt they spent that much money only to bury an architecture they have made a big effort to "switch from" (thus representing no threat to their existing PPC products) and since PA Semi weren't responsible for fabrication anyway, there's no reason to assume the product is dead. However, it may well be beyond the reach of anybody outside apple.

[Karlos]

Ok, speculating in a different direction, the area for the CPU seems to have the standard mountings for some fairly heavy duty cooling, which a high-efficiency CPU probably wouldn't need anyway. So maybe we are barking up the wrong tree all together...

There are four memory slots. A machine with only a 32-bit address space probably doesn't need that many. A machine with a wider address space (either 64-bit or using some sort of physical address extensions) might do. What sort of PPC processors match that description?

[Karlos]

Your slow i said that 30 posts back look like 775 mounts.....big cooler basically

Sure but it isn't likely to be a socket 775, now is it? After all, other than intel, who uses them?

[Karlos]

Kickstart

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moto

I don't see why they wouldn't just load kickstart from disk like all existing OS4.x systems. Assuming the board is a re-branded PPC developer system I'd guess it was some bit of standard hardware in the reference. Of course, I could be completely wrong.

[Karlos]

http://www.embeddedstar.com/weblog/2009/12/17/arm-digital-home/

released 17/12/2009

Weed

Erm, isn't that an ARM based processor? I think it has been established that the board is a PPC based one.

[Karlos]

Well, check back tomorrow and we'll talk about custom chips.

I'm at work tomorrow