Martin Donlon wrote:
> > Transmeta as just being clever by not releasing the instructions set, and
> > thus stopping people from making these mistakes.
> Hmm strange.....when companies like Matrox, 3dfx, Nvidia, Lucent,
> Rockwell, ATI, S3 etc...etc, don't release their specs everyone gets all
> upset. All these companies has industry secrets, just like Transmeta. If
> only they had a Linus......
no one wants those companies to explain the inner workings of their
chips, just the interfaces to them. the interface to cursoe is
publically available: it's the x86 instruction set. in addition they
have some nifty power management stuff, and that's also available afaik.
linus and the uk clone researchers could team up and thereby create a
company full of linus's (linii?) and even if they all did work at those
companies people would still be annoyed because they can't get the
hardware to work. when a cursoe platform is released, linux will run on
it just fine.
kevin
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