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Re: Source Code Secrecy

On Sat, 22 Aug 1998, P.A. Petricone wrote:

>> >Do you really know what folks like Linus are doing?
>> 
>> I don't think many people know what Linus is doing these days.  Isn't he
>> working for a company whose project is a rather closely guarded secret?
>
>Correct. P. Allen is involved in the operation. I think they are looking
>at how much code can be committed to silicon. If they get it right,
>there will be a lot fewer of these discussions.

Transmeta filed a patent recently, and if you read it, it is for
some kind of VLIW'ish processor that can emulate other
architecure's instruction sets in hardware via some sort of
hardware morphing.  In esscence it seems like the new chip will
be able to run Intel code, and possibly alpha/sparc/whatever code
as well.  Check back issues of slashdot for details, or visit
IBM's patent website. 


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