[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 Shaun Murray on 16-Feb-2000 23:00 GMT | three points.
1) Everyone is missing the point of the crusoe technology. It doesn't just emulate a CPU architecture, it can emulate the whole of the PC's architecture (or any other for that matter). Ie. do what UAE does in hardware.
2) I'm surprised they haven't got 68K on the horizon as crusoe would maybe make a good processor to get the PalmOS people off low powered Dragonball chips which are pretty much 68K cores with added memory controllers, LCD panel controllers etc. The problem is that so far the power requirements of the chip are still a little on the high side for PDA computing.
3) As the crusoe is able to emulate most of a PC's architecture you can replace more than just the CPU. This is an obvious gain in mobile computing. Battery life on laptops will start getting to useful levels and the less components and cheaper battery technology required is going to bring down costs.
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