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Mac Software On Crusoe?

Curtis Diesel asks: "The way I understand the Crusoe processor is that it translates instructions on the fly to its native VLIW Instruction set. It is claimed to be 100% x86 compatible. What about Macintosh? One would think that the conversion to x86 Wouldn't be much more difficult than from Mac's Instructions. Personally, I'd love a Crusoe Web pad running OS X. How about IA-64? Alpha? Maybe even Mips or SH-3? (to run Windows CE or something along those lines) Can I run multiple "code morphing" routines simultaneously? Am I limited to one at a time? Do I need to flash my processor every time I switch, or is the Crusoe just another x86 processor?" Interesting thought. Transmeta has been relatively quiet about Crusoe since the initial release, but it would be interesting to note if it could be tuned to not only emulate x86, but other platforms as well.

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