18 Jan
2002
18 Jan
'02
11:48 a.m.
On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe wrote:
--- "Amarendra Godbole (Intl Vendor)" v-amarg@microsoft.com wrote:
Search for `Crusoe processor' from Transmeta Corporation in Google.
processor. Its just a VLIW processor that spends some of its time recompiling the incoming instruction stream into its native instruction
It's a VLIW processor with a linux kernel on it to do the recompiling. Basically, let the software do the work, and pass the instructions onto the CPU. The kernel really resides in Flash ROM, and loads up before even the BIOS.
Philip
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