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To: J R KARY who wrote (27824)	3/9/2000 5:37:00 PM
From: FruJu	Respond to of 213182

A interesting possibility Fruju but unless SJ has had a change of heart PowerPCs are his chip (maybe IBM's new 405) of choice. SJ has had changes of heart before. I remember the big song and dance when he finally ported NeXTStep to Intel - if I recall he had Andy Grove up there on the stage next to him to proclaim "After 15 years, I finally convinced Steve to use Intel". The PowerPC still has a lot of potential in the consumer desktop PC, but for low-end ultra-portable devices I think there are better, cheaper, more power-conscious designs, e.g. the StrongArm and Transmeta. TransMeta holds particular interest because there is no doubt that it can easily run existing PowerPC code with a port of their code-morpher (theoretically the PowerPC should be much easier to emulate than the x86). I've been to talks by the Transmeta guys, and they're always asked this question about "could you port your code-morphing software to something other than x86", and their answer is always "Yes, we could, but we don't have anything to announce in that regard". Usually that answer means that they will have something to announce in the future. Fru>