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To: Jock Hutchinson who wrote (1)	11/13/1998 9:14:00 PM
From: Sowbug	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 421

Does anyone have a copy of the patent or patent application? I know those things are dry reading, but the VLIW technology sounds fascinating. I was reading CNet's version of the story via AvantGo (http://www.avantgo.com) -- don't know whether it's identical, but one sentence caught my eye: "Transmeta's patent also describes a technique to hold the processor's information in temporary registers where it can be quickly updated if the chip encounters an error." I'm not sure exactly why this feature confers a competitive advantage on the architecture. I thought all modern chips must be able to handle exceptions and recover from them. Does anyone know why this is different from the current exception or fault mechanisms in (for example) the Pentium architecture?