| [News] Transmeta don't plan 68k support | ANN.lu |
| Posted on 14-Feb-2000 20:02 GMT by Christian Kemp | 33 comments
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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 Plain English on 15-Feb-2000 23:00 GMT | In reply to Comment 20 (thedoctor):
Good, I could see cheaper chips running faster being a real benefit, as long as they are cheaper. In mass production something may be better but more expensive in the long run. If AMD could produce 10 of its chips at say, $100 a piece and Transmeta produce ten of theirs at $50, when you start talking about millions the trend of prices should reduce. The AMD Athlon chip should cost a couple of $'s and the Transmeta should follow suit.
I know this point is not very clear but you see where I'm getting at, how is Transmeta going to start the mass-production ball rolling to compete with Intel and AMD?
Questions.
When is this going to happen?
700MHz Athlons and faster are already a reality. There is no waiting about.
Is this chip going to run a new Amiga OS / OE?
I'd be quite content with Linux, and maybe BeOS (never used it but looks pretty). I'm an NT / Unix engineer at work so I know what I would want out of a new chip or OS / OE.
Is it going to be 128bit?
It's about time they came into the mainstream.
"That's all simple math"?
Do you mean maths, I'm not American.
"Nay sayers should get better facts"?
Don't be rude, I wasn't rude to you.
Emulation, running, translating on the fly?
Could you clarify this please? In a corporate business I don't want to have to deal with emulation, that's for working with yesterday's computers like Amiga and SNES which isn't going to happen EVER. Does this mean that the only OS available for it will be in emulation, you will never get the performance out of emulation you can out of native code. Does this mean that software for this chip will come in a non-compiled state like Linux/Unix code?
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