> I assumed that he might be stating that dual core operation
> would not be supported at all on this AmigaOne system (only
> on future motherboards).

This would mean that their "dual-core processor" marketing has been bogus all the time. That would be really bad.

> It had never occurred to me that the processors might have one
> dysfunctional core. That's a brilliant theory.

...unless Trevor didn't actually write what he meant to express ;-)

> I'd just assumed Trevor was either misquoted

I guess the interview was done in written form, which makes misquoting hard (if not done deliberately that is).

> or that they just didn't want to attempt to support dual core
> operation on this version of the X1000 motherboard. A hardware
> issue hadn't crossed my mind.

How could it be anything else than a hardware (chip level or board level) issue? Do you mean firmware level maybe?