Re: PC Plus Russian Processor

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

On Sat, 10 Jul 1999, Paul Sims wrote:

> not unlikely at all - Linus is working for a Silicon Valley startup called
> Transmeta working on a CPU - someone has to design the microcode compilers
> for this stuff, ya know.

I meant unlikely that he was working on the chip itself, I was suggesting
he has a more secondary role in this development.

> Transmeta was rumoured to be developing a CPU
> specifically to run Linux.

This to me seems strange. Transmeta has no interests in CPu development;
all the stuff it's done so far suggest graphics-related work. They don't
really seem to have the expertise or the resources to do full-scale cpu
development.

Cheers,

Alex.

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