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To: Saturn V who wrote (96731)	1/19/2000 2:35:00 PM
From: Tony Viola	Read Replies (2) of 186894

Saturn V, Re: I think Transmeta may have had a good idea when it started. But is late and other competitive approaches are on the horizon, giving it a very slim window of opportunity. It does not justify its hype at all, and I shall repeat the phrase, Transmeta is a "mountain which labored over a mole hill". OK, what's next? Emulation always means an order of magnitude lower performance. One native X86 instruction means several instructions on the machine. PowerPC was supposed to be designed from ground up for efficient emulation, but remember had 3-4x lower performance when emulating x86. I know emulation products are sloooowwww, having used some application software ones in the past. They last about as long as it takes to delete them off the hard drive. I can't believe these guys could be coming out with something an order of magnitude lower in performance. That'd be like going back to a Pentium 90 or something. I'm sure there's more to come. Tony

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