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Signal Ground: Why Transmeta’s x86-compatibility Doesn’t Matter

[ Thanks to Ken
Treis
for this link. ]

“The Register recently ran an article in which a marketing
director claimed that Transmeta’s Crusoe isn’t fully
x86-compatible. We at Signal Ground don’t think this matters
much….”

But comments like this miss a bigger point: if there is a
problem with Transmeta’s x86 compatibility, it can be remedied
without an Intel-sized fix.
All that a Transmeta chip would
require is a “code morphing” software update….”

Complete
Story

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