The Latest Transmeta Rumor 116
Today's Transmeta rumor is from Red Herring. Their story gives more details than the c't article we pointed to earlier this week, but is still full of unattributed info. Supposedly Transmeta's "real" Web site will debut with ruffles and flourishes Monday evening when Linus Torvalds gives his Comdex keynote speech, and all these little advance leaks are supposed to pique our curiosity about what he's going to say. Okay, mine's piqued. How about yours?
The suspence won't kill me (Score:1)
if (OS==Linux && segfault) {edit_source()} continue;
if (OS==Windows && illegal_operation) {
fdisk();
return Linux;
Rumour mongering (Score:2)
I would like to thank everyone involved in the prank for all the entertainment they have given us over the past few months.
Getting Linus involved was a masterstroke.
Thanks again, guys.
It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's a Frog! (Score:2)
Their Real Activity (Score:1)
I doubt many of us have any idea what they are really up to. Those patents could have been red herrings.
Piqued?! (Score:2)
There was a dirty toilet in a pub and if you read the walls the graffiti said
"Computer programmers PEEK before they POKE".
... I never did understand that
Bloody hype (Score:2)
Deosyne
Actually... (Score:1)
Just think, when this company actually lets on what it's doing, they could IPO imediately, and instantly, a new tech stock, hype hype hype.... they'd be a threat to anyone in their market.
Rumor or no . . . (Score:1)
Transmeta logo for /. (Score:1)
The news icon pretty much sucks.
Why not a great, big, ominous obelisk, like in that much-hyped sci-fi movie we all hate to love?
The Transmeta chip could make or break Java (Score:2)
On the other hand, if this chip run just about
any machine code, it makes the need for Java
less of an issue.
Though eventually, people will want to code to a common binary format. This universal instruction set could be Java if Sun loosens up.
Re:It must be hard work maintaining that site (Score:1)
Normally I ignore flamebait like this, but this particularly bothers me.
Where is it written that...
Your most treasured "techies" work on your web page?
The Web is the be-all and end-all of any commercial venture?
A company even has to have a web page to be a useful part of society?
Yeesh.
Re:Piqued?! (Score:1)
I guess the word meta in Transmeta implies some sort of higher order control.
So - what are some good business advantages of being able to change your processor instruction set?
Deja vu (Score:2)
Re:It must be hard work maintaining that site (Score:1)
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Tim Wilde
Gimme 42 daemons!
Intriguing, but nothing solid (Score:3)
According to Netcraft, they are using Apache 1.1.1, which is OLD! Old old old old old! Ancient, even!
As for the rumours, we'll know when we know, and not before. Amiga proved that, rather better than they'd hoped, and certainly not in the way they intended.
If there's a major announcement on Monday, it'll be just in time to send major shock-waves through the stock markets (already reeling from the Microsoft "finding of fact"), and (depending on what any such announcement even is) may make the hardware industry rather jittery. We're approaching the year 2000, and many companies are bracing for lawsuits, computer & hardware failures within their own sites, and other such pleasentry. Revolutionary hardware, which redefines what a computer is, is not on the list of things IT managers want, right now.
But we don't even know what it is that Transmeta is doing! We have a handful of patents, most of old technology (according to the dates) and we've no idea if any final product released will make use of any of it. It might, it might not. We don't know, we have no way of knowing, we don't even know if these were real, or defensive smokescreens to protect trade secrets.
The only people who -do- know may or may not say anything on Monday, or any other day of the week, any week of the year, any year until the end of the NEXT millenium.
Speculation, at this point, is based on 4 lines of web page, 3 patents of uncertain age & purpose, a job list, and a list of associated companies, none of which mesh in any way that I can see, unless this is a combined graphics, sound & regular processor, any segment of which can emulate in a mix of hardware & firmware any other processor of that type.
This seems improbably complex, unless Transmeta have moved to wafer-scales (which I'd like to see) but since they don't fab and no other plant can do 0.18 micron wafer-scale, with any reliability, it seems unlikely.
I for one can't wait. (Score:1)
I want one... It doesn't matter what it is. I'm gonna buy one... because most likely I'll be able to run Linux on it.
just my thoughts on it...
Timeline (Score:1)
Thanks,
jaz
Zen PR (Score:5)
Regardless of what product Transmeta eventually produces (assuming they actually do produce a product someday), you must admit they have a brilliant, practically Zen approach to Public Relations.
It doesn't matter if their product turns out to be vaporware, or the second coming of Christ in the form of a microprocessor, they've got us all so worked up over it that Linus could just walk up to the podium and eat a bowl of cereal at Comdex and we'd provide days of analysis and discussion on what we thought his body language revealed. Fscking *brilliant*
In a world becoming increasingly accustomed to ridiculous amounts of needless information on simply *everything* they've distinguished themselves from the pack in the only way possible: by providing no information whatsoever.
(Note that by [not] distinguishing themselves in this way, they've actually created a higher information density...)
I'm simply in awe, and undoubtedly waiting just as eagerly as the rest of you...
Anthony
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Segmentation fault (core dumped)
Same old same old (Score:2)
On the other hand, they continue to get themselves confused as to the merits of the processor design that "falls out of the patent list."
But laptops aren't that different. And Intel keeps on increasing transistor counts on CPUs, whilst prices don't rise (much), which means that the simple passage of time combined with Moore's law will push them into the "bloody" battle eventually.
If a "Transmeta 400" can sit in a box beside my desk and execute IA-32 instructions, then it is isomorphic to the Pentium Pro that sits in a box beside my desk and executes IA-32 instructions.
In effect, they're basically the same. Even if Transmeta has some slick new ways of getting those IA-32 instructions to be executed, the fact that they're doing the same thing undercuts the argument that they're somehow different.
Re:I for one can't wait. (Score:1)
I want their whole productline!
i hate it when i'm right! (Score:1)
Re:Intriguing, but nothing solid (Score:2)
Offtopic, I know, but I did email their postmaster (only address I could think of) saying that they should really upgrade - if only for security's sake...
Let's face it, however. Whatever is announced will be a) expensive and b) a long time coming.
Re:The Transmeta chip could make or break Java (Score:1)
And why would Sun have to loosed up? They're handling Java pretty well -- What do you want them to do, GPL it??
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"You can't shake the Devil's hand and say you're only kidding."
COREL COREL COREL COREL COREL! (Score:1)
You're right, Monday will see some major stir in the stock markets. But not because of Micro$oft; that was this week. Not because of Transmeta, that's not even publically traded yet.
No, the hero of the day will be Corel. Corel will present its Linux distro at Comdex, and that'll be the day when the unwashed masses will notice that Corel is a Linux company too, and drive its stock price to Red Hat hights. Corel go! I'm in, are you too?
just in time cpus (Score:1)
very simple and effective and mostly ignored.
But apply that scheme to translating opcodes on the fly, using the CPU cache to hold the translated codes... Oops, instant universal CPU. (and if this counts a prior publication and transmeta are doing something else that's another patent blocked :-)
I hope its worth it... (Score:1)
Re:Bloody hype (Score:1)
Remember my friend, transmeta is not the ones hyping themselves. They are just secretive. And with all the top folks they've got -- well, then the press starts to speculate. It's the press that hype transmeta into the sky -- not the company itself. Therefore, I don't think it'll effekt their products.
I want to see a somewhat operating beta, or even a crappy alpha,
For all we know, they're through with both alfa and betatesting their thingomajigs. That's something we don't know anything about. They've not released anything, or said what they're going to release. In other words, their entire "hype" has been rumors. Of course, their website backs it up, but how fun it must be, to be those blokes in transmeta -- looking at how the press speculates, and then -- just for the kicks of it, they make that website..
My point? Well, I don't think we should say "hype leads to vaporware" -- when its not they themselves that makes the hype.
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My prediction (Just fro the record) (Score:2)
I think it's gonna be a chip designed for use in laptop / palm size devices that will run (at least one) full-scale O/S. It will have in-built support for various communications protocols (in much the same way as MMX has support for various multimedia tricks right now) and the reprogrammability of the chip will allow for upgrading with further protocols in the future.
The potential dream use? A "tricorder" style device, basically a fully sized computer with instant always-on wireless access to the Internet.
Even if it's not this, can someone please get their asses in gear and make one g'dammit!
Re:Intriguing, but nothing solid (Score:2)
The Coordinator is Transmeta Hostmaster (hostmaster@transmeta.com)
Tel: (408) 327 9830
Fax: (408) 327-9840
Look at the timing... (Score:2)
Maybe they have been waiting for MSFT to have a bit of slippage, with the intent to pounce at that point.
(Although Paul Allen, investor, also holds lots of MSFT stock, and thus would get hurt by this... Not too plausible...)
They're using old technology. There are connections to Europe.
Perhaps this is actually an End of Days scenario; they plan to make an announcement that will help Imminnetize the Eschaton (sp? I've not read the RAW trilogy in quite some time).
I Agree (Score:1)
Why?
Cause it has that professional polished look I like about windows. And belive it or not, corporate development always produces much more complete polished products. Corel is a professional company (look at Corel Draw for example - very nice). I'm looking forward to drooling over it when I get my hands on a copy.
From the screen shots it functionally looks like Windows 2000
Re:Piqued?! (Score:2)
Re:Piqued?! (Score:1)
You could do fun things like freeze the machine, disable system key combinations, or just generally make the machine act like it was going to explode. The Apples has no concept of "protected" memory like (some of us) do now.
Oh... and I guess it is A Good Thing (tm) to examing the memory with PEEK before you overwrite it with POKE.
Heh. Just a wild guess. I could be wrong.
/. effect multiplied by Rest Of World (Score:1)
They can't play this no-news-sudden-news thing without expecting masses of website interest the moment they finally put something up there.
More interesting than *what* it says, will be if, on Monday night, it actually says anything at all!...
Re:darn. (Score:2)
Yep... When I saw that nice clean article with no posts I didn't hesitate, yes the adrenaline was surging... my palms were wet, heart pounding. I was standing at the peak of greatness... I knew I had but one thing to do, there was no turning back now... I rapidly typed in a one word post.. then with no hesitation I navigated my mouse over the submit button...and WHAM..seconds later I was looking at my feeble post with a #1 attached to the header. At that mmoment I knew a feeling that only few will ever know...I was at one with Slashdot... Zen masters and Kings will relate I'm sure. That one sweet moment when the ying and the yang converge..bliss... eternal bliss..ahhh
Then I smoked a cigarette and went to bed.
in one sense, you're wrong.. (Score:1)
so, my guess is they have somebody (not necessarily a techie, I guess) looking in on things, you know?
A question (Score:2)
What has changed since then? Linus Torvalds, the god of Linux and the hero of the OSS revolution is working for a company that files patents on all of its ideas and *GASP* requires NDAs in order to see their work. Why has no one noticed this? *sarcasm>Is it because it's Linus, and He can do no wrong */sarcasm>? Or are people realising that there is a time and a place for OSS and the GPL, and this might not be it?
Linux 2001 (Score:1)
Re:Look at the timing... (Score:2)
Paul Allen is one of the smartest investors out there, it would be interesting to see just exactly how much he has invested. If anything I would watch him and see where his money goes in the next few months. Cause if Paul starts to pull his money out of Microsoft, you can bet there will be a following, which would hurt Microsoft badly. Who knows, maby Paul has a heart and doesn't want to hurt Mircosoft, and sees Transmeta as a way to hedge his losses
It doesn't matter... (Score:1)
Here's a scenario (Score:1)
This is one of my "kill "THE MAN"" fantasies:
1. Intel has overlooked a HUGE Y2K issue that is present in all of their microprocessors. (Possibly intentionally)
2. Transmeta, while developing their rumored mystery chip discovered the flaw.
3. Come January 1, 2000, everyone with an Intel chip has Y2K issues. (Big or small)
4. Come January 19, 2000, Transmeta has new inexpensive microprocessor/motherboard combo that will solve the problem.
5. Intel's bottom line plummets and Transmeta becomes the new "MAN"
6. A week later, I begin to make my plans to take Transmeta down. ;P
The Demonbitch has spoken
TransMeta strategy? (Score:4)
Nothing! They wait for speculations to converge, and then work towards realising that goal. It is quite brilliant. They're letting the industrys wildest dreams and fantasies define their product line.
This way, when they deliver what everyone has, in effect, suggested to them, they'll be hailed as visionaries and innovators of the greatest caliber.
It's like Microsoft's focus-group driven market research, only in the open-source way... They didn't solicit. Whatever we thought was useful, we gladly contributed to creating....
Or maybe they're just openning up a penguin farm.
Re:My prediction (Just fro the record) (Score:2)
Re:Piqued?! (Score:1)
Basically what Transmeta will be announcing is their new Pic-based stepper-motor control device, which turns the knob on Variacs via software control. Specificially, it provides a programming interface for higher order languages. Right now only English, but they are working on Slovakian and Sanskrit.
Re:Bloody hype (Score:1)
Nothing more.
Nothing less.
Immanentize the Eschaton (Score:2)
The Eschaton will shortly be Immanentized. "The Great Convergance" will imho be the vehicle this time around fnord.
For further information, consult your pineal gland. All Hail Eris. Prosecutors will be transgressicuted.
Anthony DiMarco, KSC
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Segmentation fault (core dumped)
Re:Look at the timing... (Score:1)
Re:I for one can't wait. (Score:1)
And Man does it have devout Monks!!
Re:TransMeta strategy? (Score:1)
Funny you should say this. After one of the recent Slashdot/Transmeta rumor fests, I was telling a friend of mine how the guys at Transmeta could have been playing Quake until now, and all they'd have to do is read the Slashdot thread to get about 10,000 incredible ideas for things they could do. Sort of a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Anthony
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Segmentation fault (core dumped)
Re:A question (Score:1)
Re:Piqued?! (Score:1)
Of course, on the Commodore machines you were poking and peeking directly into memory addresses. That use to be the easiest way to load a machine language game from BASIC - you'd set up a For/Next loop to poke the code into a block of memory space, the popular one beginning at 49152. Boy was it easy to program back then!
Re:A question (Score:1)
Youre saying that these things that usually tend to repulse /. readers can be good when the product is in development? I can see how this would benifit all.
If they were completely open (with the source, I mean) from the get-go, people would see the maturation of the code and would begin to read things into it (like the prototype for an as-yet unwritten function with a enigmatic name) creating all sorts of undue and unwanted hype. Should the developer hit a snag and have to backtrack a bit and go in another direction, all sorts of things would be read into that, again creating some hype, or even a little FUD (albeit generated by the masses).
PS. I guess the community is split over the inherent good/evil of NDAs and patents. hmmmm.
I Know What Transmeta Is !!!!!!!!!! (Score:3)
Re:TransMeta strategy? (Score:1)
But if it is, it means we would still have to wait quite a while for 'it' to come out.
Or, if it's a penguin farm, I say the penguins need a home!
Re:I Agree (Score:2)
Babajan speaking about Transmeta (Score:1)
The impostance of this two exmaples shows that now, in post-superscalar world there is only 3 place where developed wide command word(VLIW?) architicture. First place is Moscow, our collective, second is HP-Intel, and third it's Transmeta together with IBM and Texas Instruments.That's It ! No one else has this technology. In order to develop it you need at least 10 years. Of coursse you can clone(steal) it. It's always fast. But to develop it independetly takes a lot of time...
The url for the whole speach is here [inter.net.ru]. In russian of course.
Re:At 8am? (Score:1)
Please, have mercy on my poor, sleepy soul.
Transmeta updated site! (Score:2)
This web page is not here yet!
...but it is Y2K compliant.
Wow.
Adult adventure on the ZX81??? (Score:1)
Re:I for one can't wait. (Score:2)
Christ as a microprocessor (Score:1)
Re:A question (Score:2)
There is a difference between hardware and software. Transmeta's patents all seem to cover hardware devices. I don't see a dilemma there (barring the question of the legitimacy of 'Intellectual Property').
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No, I'm a mathematician (Score:2)
Mapping emulated instructions onto the "true" instructions on the processor that's doing the emulating is nicely representative of the notion of "isomorphism." Whatever compiler tools are involved will need to provide some sort of one-to-one mapping of sets of IA-32 instructions onto sets of "Transmeta Chip" instructions; if that is not an isomorphism, I don't know what is.
Re:Adult adventure on the ZX81??? (Score:2)
I distinctly remember a game package (can you believe it) for the ZX81 called "Can O Worms" which had "adult" games.
Around the same time, there was definitely an adventure, which was a kind of text based "Leisure Suit Larry" type game, where the quote comes from.
I remember it so clearly because I was only about 11 at the time and I *really* wanted to get a look at those games, but only ever got a chance to read the reviews in Computer & Video Games.
slashdotting transmeta (Score:1)
tyops. (Score:2)
No, there are no *tyops* in the web page...
-- There are no secret messages in the source code to this web page. --
-- There are no tyops in this web page. --
:-)
Re:Rumour mongering (Score:1)
Anyway, my curiosity is definately piqued, and i really want to see what they come up with. I hope it really is something uber-cool. Guess we all get to wait and see, and even if your of the opinion that it's all a big prank, the suspense will likely be insane.
2 and 2 together (Score:1)
The way I heard the rumors, and through some intel gathering efforts by some 3rd parties, transmeta is working on a badass processor. It will run linux (why in hell else would torvalds be working at a semiconductor company, rather than a software company). This is fine and good for us all. Fast processors for a cool OS.
But wait...transmeta's bankrolled by one of the MS heavies...what would they have to gain by making hardware linux could run on (remember, they've put a lot of effort into being top dog on x86, why would they create another hardware platform, and invite others in)?
My hypothesis is this: Most Linux users use x86 because they originally had a windows machine, and installed linux on it. They may have bought more linux machines since. This is a weak point in the barrier to entry in the PC OS market. Because the new linux user doesn't have to buy new hardware to start using linux, it is a cheap and readly available alternative to windows on x86. If, to reap the full benefits of Linux, one had to either buy new hardware, or be content with relatively poor performance, the average windows user would be LESS likely to run linux, thus protecting the barrier to entry on the x86 OS market. If this new hardware would be incompatible with x86 hardware, businesses may be less likely to use it for their machines, because parts and support would be much more scarce and expensive than their x86 counterparts.
In short, I believe two things are possibly the REAL motive behind transmeta:
a) MS is tired of intel and wants more control over the CPU's windows runs on, and needs the OS of early adopters on board to help it take off.
-or-
b) Transmeta is a means by which MS can hurt Linux as a viable alternative to windows on x86, thus protecting the applications barrier to entry on that platform, protecting their monopoly.
just some conjecture...make your own decision
dan
To much of the good stuff. (Score:1)
Just my 0.02 euro.
linus = interest (Score:1)
I suppose when microsoft comes out with vaporware, it's bad. However, when something involving the holy linus comes out with vaporware, it's the second coming of christ.
Re:Timeline (Score:1)
The Last Dinosaur and the Tarpits of Doom [muq.org]
Transmeta's webpage. (Score:1)
"This web page is not here yet!
From Netcraft [netcraft.com]:
www.transmeta.com is running Apache/1.1.1 on Linux
Isn't Apache 1.1.1 a tad, er, non-Y2K compliant? (I know there are several security concerns WRT that ancient a ver of Apache). At least they use Linux
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Re:Same old same old (Score:1)
That "proves" the CPU is not a 32 bit one... So, maybe the x86 compatibility is just a big plus, maybe the main thing is really different :) But maybe a 64-bit PC compatible processor is big enough (see this [linuxtoday.com].)
That crusoe thing is another easily confirmable, they have three refused trademark applications for the word "Crusoe", (available via search only at the USPTO [uspto.gov] web site, no constant URL's, search for crusoe, the applications are: 75-708413, 75-706113 and 75-706048).
And where are the other Java Chips? (Score:2)
None of these have really gone anywhere in terms of influencing Java deployment.
The only way they would have been important is if:
Stock Market (Score:1)
"Adult" Games on TRS-80 (Score:2)
It was advertised in good 'ol 80 Microcomputing with nothing more "explicit" than a attractive woman with subtly suggestive cleavage. (None of the "WWF World Class Implant" thing games selleers use these days...)
Re:Transmeta's webpage. (Score:1)
Re:Bloody hype (Score:2)
Transmeta, on the other hand, has announced absolutely nothing.
They could release one of those plastic birds that bobs its head up and down, and it'd still be more than what they announced.
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Re:Adult adventure on the ZX81??? (Score:1)
I think the game you are talking about is "Soft-Porn Adventure", which was later revamped, had pictures added, and became "Leisure Suit Larry I".
Re:Look at the timing... (Score:1)
Re:Timeline (Score:1)
any other ideas?
Re:I Agree (Score:1)
Corel 8 look even better haven't tried Corel 9 tho.
I think what Corel aparently has already done looks like innovation to me.
Innovation to me is the same as innovation as Bill Gates calls it. Innovation is something you just look at and go "wow".
I don't think of Innovation as invention.
The "Life of Brian" PR (Score:1)
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http://www.mwscomp.com/movies/brian/brian-16.ht
BRIAN:
Consider the lilies...
ELSIE:
Consider the lilies?
BRIAN:
Uh, well, the birds, then.
EDDIE:
What birds?
BRIAN:
Any birds.
EDDIE:
Why?
BRIAN:
Well, have they got jobs?
ARTHUR:
Who?
BRIAN:
The birds.
EDDIE:
Have the birds got jobs?!
FRANK:
What's the matter with him?
ARTHUR:
He says the birds are scrounging.
BRIAN:
Oh, uhh, no, the point is the birds. They do all right. Don't they?
FRANK:
Well, good luck to 'em.
EDDIE:
Yeah. They're very pretty.
BRIAN:
Okay, and you're much more important than they are, right? So, what are you worrying about? There you are. See?
EDDIE:
I'm worrying about what you have got against birds.
BRIAN:
I haven't got anything against the birds. Consider the lilies.
ARTHUR:
He's having a go at the flowers now.
EDDIE:
Oh, give the flowers a chance.
BRIAN:
Ohh. Look. There was this man, and he had two servants.
ARTHUR:
What were they called?
BRIAN:
What?
ARTHUR:
What were their names?
BRIAN:
I don't know. And he gave them some talents.
EDDIE:
You don't know?!
BRIAN:
Well, it doesn't matter!
ARTHUR:
He doesn't know what they were called!
BRIAN:
Oh, they were called 'Simon' and 'Adrian'. Now--
ARTHUR:
Oh! You said you didn't know!
BRIAN:
It really doesn't matter. The point is there were these two servants--
ARTHUR:
He's making it up as he goes along.
BRIAN:
No, I'm not!
ARTHUR:
Ohh.
EDDIE:
Oh, he's terrible!
ARTHUR:
He's terrible.
BRIAN:
There were three.
ARTHUR:
Thpppt!
BRIAN:
They were-- they were st-- stewards, really.
ELSIE:
Aww, get off!
BRIAN:
Ooh! Eh, uh, b-- b-- now-- now hear this! Blessed are they...who convert their neighbour's ox, for they shall inhibit their girth,...
[the guards start to walk away]
MAN:
Rubbish!
BRIAN:
...and to them only shall be given-- to them only... shall... be... given...
[the guards are gone]
ELSIE:
What?
BRIAN:
Hmm?
ELSIE:
Shall be given what?
BRIAN:
Oh, nothing.
ELSIE:
Hey! What were you going to say?
BRIAN:
Nothing.
ARTHUR and FRANK:
Yes, you were.
ELSIE:
Yes. You were going to say something.
BRIAN:
No, I wasn't. I'd finished.
ELSIE:
Oh, no you weren't.
ARTHUR:
Oh, come on. Tell us before you go.
BRIAN:
I wasn't going to say anything. I'd finished.
ELSIE:
No, you hadn't.
BLIND MAN:
What won't he tell?
EDDIE:
He won't say.
BLIND MAN:
Is it a secret?
BRIAN:
No.
BLIND MAN:
Is it?
EDDIE:
Must be. Otherwise, he'd tell us.
ARTHUR:
Oh, tell us the secret.
BRIAN:
Leave me alone.
YOUTH:
What is this secret?
GIRL:
Is it the secret of eternal life?
EDDIE:
He won't say!
ARTHUR:
Well, of course not. If I knew the secret of eternal life, I wouldn't say.
BRIAN:
Leave me alone.
GIRL:
Just tell me, please.
ARTHUR:
No. Tell us, Master. We were here first.
BRIAN:
Ah!
GIRL:
Just tell--
BRIAN:
Go away!
GIRL:
Tell us, Master.
GIRL:
Tell-- Is that His gourd?
YOUTH:
We've got this here.
GIRL:
It is His gourd! We will carry it for you, Master! Master?
YOUTH:
He's gone! He's been taken up!
GIRL:
Ahhhh!
FOLLOWERS:
For He's been taken up!
ARTHUR:
No, there He is. Over there.
FOLLOWERS:
Oh, yeah. Master! Master!...
[FOLLOWERS chase BRIAN]
I'm in awe! (Score:2)
Ref: Fawn's in AWE [geekculture.com]
(Abacus or no abacus)