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To: Charles R who wrote (87737)1/17/2000 5:30:00 PM
From: Scumbria  Respond to of 1584320
 
Chuck,

My understanding is that Transmeta will depend on software emulation to mimic some popular microprocessors. I am looking for details on how they hope to be successful with that strategy.

DEC has been doing this for a decade with FX32! and Alpha. The principle difference between them and Transmeta is that DEC offered a high performance solution on a popular OS (NT.) Transmeta is using a low performance processor and an OS (Linux) which nobody wants on their desktop.

I anticipate that they will be wildly successful.

Scumbria



To: Charles R who wrote (87737)1/17/2000 9:50:00 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 1584320
 
My understanding is that Transmeta will depend on software emulation to mimic some popular microprocessors. I am looking for details on how they hope to be successful with that strategy. We probably could revisit the topic once we get a little bit of info on what they are doing.

Chuck, you're saying that their new chip is not a chip at all?

ted


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