More on emulation, Linus and Transmeta from TBTF

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