[News] Transmeta don't plan 68k support | ANN.lu |
Posted on 14-Feb-2000 20:02 GMT by Christian Kemp | 33 comments View flat View list |
Black Hand says he repeatedly mailed Transmeta to enquire about 68k emulation support, or the posibility to access and modifiy the morphing code. Here's what Frank Priscaro replied: Supporting the Amiga was something that we considered early on, but had to drop because all of our resources needed to be focused on the Linux and x86 markets. We have no plans at this time to support the 68K family of processors.
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Posted by Thomas Palestig on 14-Feb-2000 23:00 GMT | I din't expected that they should make a M68K emulation, but it's strange that
they did emulation for the x86 series, do they realy need that, what i know
is all x86 series compatilble with older x86 and i think it's enough with Intel
and AMD that makes processors that kills other CPU market.
And what I read is the speed of the Tramsmeta that same as "a standard pc" of today..
It's nice to see a company look back with nostalgi but why should a PC user
buy a processor that doesn't run at full speed (even if they say so) as it's
not native code, and the problem in the computer industries isn't fast processors,
it's a OS with good hardware that works in a good way without collide and crash
with each others, and the new version of the Standard OS today does only have
63.000 known buggs that's shouldn't be fixed (what i have read, but havn't asked
billy) so i think the whole IT idustry is a bit crazy right now..
And the Trasmeta cpu does nearly the same as TAO's Elate, and both work in the
software way but TAO's doeas it on all types of CPU (/FPU?) after some coding..
Atleast the old Motorola PPC CPU's din't need extra cooling, like the Transmeta. |
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