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There were consumer devices with a processor designed to be flexible on its instruction set presented to the user. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmeta_Crus
by vel0city 2y ago
There were consumer devices with a processor designed to be flexible on its instruction set presented to the user.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmeta_Crusoe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmeta_Crusoe
https://youtu.be/xtuKqd-LWog?t=332 https://youtu.be/xtuKqd-LWog?t=332
- Keyframe 2y agoaka the company where Linus worked!
- nineteen999 2y agothat also kinda failed to reach their goals unfortunately.
- panick21_ 2y agoThe failed because contract chip manufacturing was a huge issue back then. And the bet on slightly the wrong implementation as well. The fundamentally ideas weren't broken.
- nineteen999 2y agoYeah, I didn't ascribe any particular reason for it. I was dissapointed to hear the news, it came quietly after a long period of silence, which came after a much longer period of hype.