[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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Transmeta don't plan 68k support : Comment 19 of 33 | ANN.lu |
Posted by sutro on 14-Feb-2000 23:00 GMT | In reply to Comment 10 (Mario Saitti...): Transmeta aims at embedded systems ("Mobile Internet Computing" , strangely it reminds me of "Multimedia PC").
In this section intel's x86 technology , logic and experience are no factors (compared to Motorola).
How will Transmeta compete to intel's and motorola's GHzs , copper technology and 0.1micros process ?
By designing more advanced s/w ?
As for IBM , if you saw the "Transmeta announcement" fiasco on 19th of Jan you should remember they had
a hard time persuading reporters that they had a contract with IBM or even that IBM knew anything about them.
I believe IBM had been already working at these things way before them.
I don't discard the idea (VLIW) but the company (Transmeta).
As for PPC , they are here to stay for many years (un)fortunately to some ....
I bet you 've been a Cyrix pc user... |
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