I was watching the webcast and saw Linus. He IS a nerd !!!!
The most important item with Crusoe is that it consumes 1watt !!! and
is already at 128bit, though at the moment they will not allow anyone
to write native to the VLIW instruction as it is rumored that the sets
are different between the 3120 and the 5400.
Watch for the 3120 to end up in your car, mobile phone, camera, tv
etc...
Yipee!!!!!
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> Subject: [SLUG] Transmeta launches Crusoe
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> For those interested in the building blocks of world domination :)
>
> Transmeta (http://www.transmeta.com/) have launched Crusoe, a new
> processor that runs x86 code by a form of software
> emulation on top of a
> new simpler VLIW (Very Long Instruction Word) core.
>
> They hope to revolutionise the mobile computing market with devices
> that will run for approximately 8 hours at a time! They are also
> developing mobile wireless Net devices.
>
> Here comes the cool bit: They are developing a version of
> Linux called
> Mobile Linux. Mobile Linux has a really small footprint, and runs
> without a hard drive. Released under the GPL of course.
>
> Lots of luck to Linus and the boys :)
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