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To: justin55 who wrote (5298)	1/17/2000 12:52:00 AM
From: w molloy	Read Replies (2) of 13582

re : Transmeta Transmeta are keeping mum regarding their new chip. However, since there is nothing new under the sun.... PC chips (re INTC, AMD) are CISC (Complex Instruction Set Computers) Wireless chips (re ARM, MIPs) are RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computers) so what is left - well parallel computers About 15 years ago, a British company called INMOS (now owned by SGS-Thompson) developed a chip called a Transputer - a computing device in which communications are primitive operations (like addition) and in which parallelism is a primitive construct (like the conditional). Methinks that Linus' chip is not disimilar. Some great Transputer sites... cs.jcu.edu.au linus.socs.uts.edu.au (I wonder if the name on the second link is coincidence....) w.

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