[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 Anonymously Named Novice on 16-Feb-2000 23:00 GMT | In reply to Comment 24 (Plain English): > 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?
This is the exact point of using Transmeta's technology. It'll be TRANSPARENT to
the user even though the emulation/translation is taking place, whereas current
PPC solution for Amiga will always need to run emulators (in a separate process)
to be compatible with older softwares and even AmigaOS. From looking at the
benchmarks for Crusoe processors, they may not be faster than the top of x86
lines but not as slow as 68040 speed that H&P's emulator will be (not that I'm
saying that H&P did a poor job).
I'm disappointed that so many people have downplayed the importance of
Transmeta technology or not even understood a single bit about it. |
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