More on emulation, Linus and Transmeta from TBTF

From: Doug Yowza <yowza_at_yowza.com>
Date: Fri Sep 11 12:46:36 1998

Another clue that Transmeta is making a new chip: one of their host names
is neosilicon. Their DNS servers is very friendly and talkative, but they
are clearly paranoid in the way their servers are configured.

Centaur was much the same way when they were making their x86 clone (which
I think they call WinChip now). IBM was also pretty quiet about their 615
project -- I don't remember if they ever admitted that the chip existed.
If Transmeta is really making an x86 clone, all I can say is *yawn*.
Linus is still pretty active on the Linux kernel hackers list doing
seemingly mainstream stuff. Maybe they hired him as a tester. Doing x86
compatibility testing is the hardest part of making a clone.

ObCC: what was the first MPU clone? It couldn't have been the NS 8080
clone, could it?

-- Doug
Received on Fri Sep 11 1998 - 12:46:36 BST