[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 Anonymous on 15-Feb-2000 23:00 GMT | In reply to Comment 20 (thedoctor): > You are way out in left field in even starting to compare prices, on TM versus
> the X86 clone chips, the top of the line 700mhz athlon and P3 are OEM at $500 plus,
> and the announced price of the 700mhx TM is up to $150...and 700mhz on 128 bit
> instruction is still 2 times speed of 70mhz on 64 bit instruction...
You can't just compare 'MHz' and 'bits' like that. Remember that these are two completely
different processors. For the same reason you can't compare the MHz of a PPC G4 and a x86.
OK, the TM can emulate the instructionset of a x86, but that doesn't mean that the TM
IS a x86.
> Thats all simple math...
No, not the way you are counting ...
> Nay sayers should get better facts.....
alleluia
> And transmetta never said that what the processor was doing was "emulating",
Well have a look at it again, and you will see that it IS a kind of emulation. You see that,
don't you?
> thats is being used as the term when a real terms for this new process, has yet to be
> established.....What the CEO said in the presentation was something like "a new
> process of translating on the fly, for lack of a better term", and the moderators
> all injected Emulation to discribe..
But what is emulation? It is "a process of translating on the fly". Haage&Partners 68k emulator
for PPC processors are doing just that. And you should always take what CEO's are saying in
presentations whit a grin of salt. After all, they are just salesmen selling their products ... |
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