Re: PC Plus Russian Processor

[Paul Sims <nospam [at] psims.free-online.co.uk>]

Just found additional info :
>Transmeta's patent describes a hardware/software combination that can
translate
> instructions x86 processors into Transmeta's chip language.
> Code morphing software, assisted by the chip,
> translates the instructions then stores them so they can
> be re-used later, bypassing a second translation process.

>This sound like a description of Digital's Fx!32 software
>emulator that allows x86 code to be used on Alpha machines
>(often faster than a fast Pentium).
>I suppose we'll have to wait for the chip itself
>before we see anything novel...
>Bernard
>
>Bernard Murray, PhD
>bpmurray [at] socrates.ucsf.edu (Cell. Mol. Pharmacol, UCSF, San Francisco,
USA)

> > 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.

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