From the 'Amiga Inc Partner' archive, Transmeta. Now a penny stock.

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dammy wrote:
Pity, someone should have told them about the Amiga curse before it was too late. With it being at $1 @ share, I wonder who's going to buy it out for IP rights.

Dammy

I think this is more related to the VLIW curse than the amiga curse.

@asian1

I spoke to a Transmeta engineer five years ago about support of the 68k and his answer was that it was totally possible and in fact quite easy... All you have to do is licence their Code Morphing technology... These Dot Coms are so dumb :-)

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asian1 wrote:
VLIW Curse

See Itanium & Itanium 2 CPU abandoned by HP, the original designer of Mercer / Itanium.

http://www.arcade-eu.info/overview/2004/itanium.html

My point exactly.

>Transmeta Engineer - ask for License

What is the name and the title of this engineer?
Is he / she still work at Transmeta?

I have no idea, this was 5 years ago at the launch of the Crusoe. I actually wrote to the Sales department, but it was an engineer who replied.

I HAVE asked for the license, and I got the above reply.

Perhaps Transmeta sales department did not understand their own product (?).

What is the comparison of between "code morphing" performance and the real 68K, Coldfire or PowerPC?

Acroding to the guy who replied, supporting any CPU architecture is easy, even different ones at the same time... performance is very dependant upon the quality of the Code Morphing "Emulator"... I would expect the maximum performance to be similar to that of their x86 code.