Message-ID: <19991001121500.05027@plts.org>
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 12:15:00 -0400
From: Tom Limoncelli
To: tm-hunters@plts.org
Subject: Transmeta in the news
The week in review for Transmeta-Hunters...
On Tuesday Transmeta got a new patent.
My translation: If you have one chip that translates from one
machine code to another in real time, and another that actually executes
the second machine code, there are certain locking issues that one has
to deal with if the execution gets ahead of the translation (or behind
for that matter). The patent is a novel solution to the locking problem.
On Friday C/Net has an article about the new transmeta patent.
The way they phrased something strikes me as odd. How dynamic is the
translation? Could it be that instead of a memory-cache, the cpu has a
"memory of what's been translated so far"-cache?
On Wed or Thursday I was talking with a Transmeta employee about the
hype they get. This person wrote:
|
The interesting think is that Transmeta provides no hype whatsoever.
actually, we just say nothing at all. Everyone else goes crazy with the
buzz, and we get blamed for "hyping". |
That's gotta be the biggest BS I've heard in a long time. It brings up
images of Bart and Lisa Simpson in that scene where they promise their
mother not to hit each other. Then Lisa says, "I'M GOING TO SWING MY ARMS
LIKE THIS AND IF IT HITS ANYTHING THAT'S NOT MY FAULT!" and starts
walking towards Bart. Bart does the same thing. The fighting continues.
I've done PR. If you don't get the word out, nobody talks about you.
Transmeta has signed non-disclosures with all The Right People that
willcan tell all their friends that Transmeta is cool but not why.
I'M GOING TO GIVE NON-DISCLOSURES TO THE PEOPLE IN SILICON VALLEY THAT
WILL TELL EVERYONE HOW COOL WE ARE WITHOUT REVEALING WHAT WE DO AND IF
THE HYPE AVALANCHES ALL AROUND US THAT'S NOT MY FAULT!"
Fuck it. I'm really just in a bad mood because Sun announced that
Solaris is going open source
and the Transmeta-Hunters Web Page didn't get any fuckin' credit.
We've had this info on our web page since August. (Ok, we did claim it
for all the wrong reasons but...)
I'm going to go to the cafeteria now and put an empty tray at the
hamburger counter AND IF SOMEONE PUTS FOOD ON MY TRAY AND I EAT IT
THAT'S NOT MY FAULT!
Signing off,
--tal
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