The nemesis of a person or thing is a situation, event, or person which causes them to be seriously harmed, especially as a punishment. Yet the imminent crisis in its balance of payments may be the President's nemesis. Greek goddess of retribution. In the earliest Greek religion she was worshiped as a fertility goddess. Later legends told how Zeus, in the form of a swan, coupled with her in the form of a goose. Nemesis then laid the egg from which Helen of Troy was born (in other versions Leda was said to be Helen's mother). Nemesis dealt out punishments that expressed the gods' disapproval of human presumption. Her cult was also popular in Rome, particularly among soldiers
Nemesis is the system accelerator developed by Black Scorpion Software for Falcon systems By providing a 40MHz system clock, Nemesis affords an increase to all CPU & DSP based tasks as well as providing a significant increase to FPU based calculations Additionally, Nemesis allows the use of high resolution true colour modes on a standard VGA monitor so enhancing packages which benefit from the use of extra colour