From tal@research.bell-labs.com Mon Nov 15 22:02:48 1999 Return-Path: Delivered-To: tmhunters@plts.org Received: from dirty.research.bell-labs.com (dirty.research.bell-labs.com [204.178.16.6]) by plts.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 28E86C9 for ; Mon, 15 Nov 1999 22:02:46 -0500 (EST) Received: from scummy.research.bell-labs.com ([135.104.2.10]) by dirty; Mon Nov 15 22:02:05 EST 1999 Received: from starling.research.bell-labs.com ([135.104.26.187]) by scummy; Mon Nov 15 22:02:05 EST 1999 Received: from research.bell-labs.com (blmhbossy-pc.research.bell-labs.com [135.104.26.103]) by starling.research.bell-labs.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id WAA13570 for ; Mon, 15 Nov 1999 22:02:16 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3830C92D.8F88F5D9@research.bell-labs.com> Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 22:02:05 -0500 From: Tom Limoncelli X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: tm-hunters@plts.org Subject: http://www.transmeta.com/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: RO Content-Length: 1052 Lines: 20 If you haven't heard already, http://www.transmeta.com has new info. Show the HTML source for a secret message (not nearly as cool as the secret message on http://mars.superlink.net/user/tal/tm) I've also heard that: 1. The buzz is that Transmeta might have missed their market window. 2. transmeta employees with absolutely no interested in video games have been seen purchasing old PC video games at Fry's. The theory is these are the programs that break if a system is even slightly not IBM PC compatible, so they make good tests for Intel clones. It's dawned on me that if they are doing a low-power Pentium clone, they better to be able to have Dell, Gateway, or some such company showing full system at their Jan 19th announcement. Nobody makes money on a chip; they make money on a system. (AT&T used to announce new chips, one after the next, and be baffled that they weren't make money. Oh, you mean consumers don't buy chips just to sit and look at the pretty wires?) So, why aren't we getting rumors from Dell/Gateway/etc.? --tal