On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 06:16:11PM +0100, Burke, Gary : GIG IS&T wrote:
> It is thought that (maybe) the Crusoe chip could be used for such a chip,
> and I believe Sun are also working on one (can someone in Sun confirm this?)
Sun had a processor which could execute Java bytecode directly a few years
ago. I think they made / planned to make some kind of NC based on the chip
but AFAIR it died a death without ever making much of a market impact -
knowing Sun, it was was probably half the speed (even counting bytecode
interpretation) of an Intel chip which was half its price.
Regards,
Niall
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