Re: PC Plus Russian Processor

[Al Hudson <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

On Sun, 4 Jul 1999, Paul Sims wrote:

> This processor was in the news a while ago - the technology behind the
> design would allow the processor to very rapidly outpace existing monolithic
> cpus when the .35 micron design migrates to .25 or even .18.

It's been on ./ and linuxtoday in the past also - although that was ages
ago, so you'd have to trawl the archives.

> BTW, you know that Linus himself is working on a radical new processor in
> his day job.

Unlikely, given he's a software engineer rather than an electrical one ;)
Anyways, the smart money is on transmeta developing a graphics system;
nothing to do with main CPUage at all. Be interesting when it comes out
though. Smoke, fire, all that..

Cheers,

Alex.

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