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Pope was a QA engineer - that means he worked on systems that weren't qualified for shipping. Actual CMS bugs in a shipped device was extremely rare, but the b
by FullyFunctional 6y ago
Pope was a QA engineer - that means he worked on systems that weren't qualified for shipping. Actual CMS bugs in a shipped device was extremely rare, but the big promise of Transmeta was that would _could_ ship fixes (and did, in at least one case). The perf impact of a CMS fix was typically trivial as it was fixing a translator, unlike an interpreter like the microcode in an Intel core.
- PopeDotNinja 6y agoI mostly worked on development boards that were the same size that you'd put in a regular AT/ATX case. I did some work on notebooks, too, both on prototypes & production models, too.
- FullyFunctional 6y agoI think I know you (Hi!), but my point is that by definition, QA's work is to find the bugs before the customers, so they don't see them. Talking about bugs you find without that qualifier might make people get the wrong impression.
- PopeDotNinja 6y agoHola!