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Build Your Own Crusoe-Powered Computer

jonmason00 writes "Just checked the Transmeta webpage, and discovered that they are now offering a Crusoe TM5800 System Development Kit. It's a bit expensive ($995) and you gotta register before you can buy one, but they need your support." How about an Astro development kit instead? :)

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  1. Support? by All+Names+Have+Been · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...they need your support...

    Great .. Geek corporate welfare.

  2. Yeah! by delta407 · · Score: 5, Funny

    They need our support, guys, let's rack up huge bandwidth bills and see if we can set their web server on fire!

    Nothing like a good ol' slashdotting to bring a business back in the black.

  3. Re:Off-topic rant by beta21 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Shall I supply my blood type and a DNA sample and a piss test and fingerprints in addition to my social security number and home phone and mother's maiden name?'

    Also you need to provide a stool sample

  4. Re:Alternatives by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I am a Slashdot subscriber. Are you?

    Nope, my filters take care of the flash and banner ads just fine. I don't need to subscribe.

  5. I can see the hellstorm that is to be released... by SensitiveMale · · Score: 3, Funny
    by telling a group of linux users that they have to spend money.


    If there is any other user group that will try to squeeze each and every cycle out of an old 286 then I don't know of them.

  6. Re:benchmarks? by TeknoHog · · Score: 5, Funny
    1 Intel MHz = 1 AMD MHz = 1 Crusoe MHz.

    Performance is another thing, but one million cycles per second is the same thing in every friggin supercluster. Sorry to burst your bubble of different MHz measurements, but I guess truth always hertz.

    --
    Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.
  7. Re:Here's why by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    No, but they'll be bankrupt within 6 months so it's a moot point.

  8. Re:Transmeta by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny
    this is free advertizing for a company that the mods/eds have an affinity for due to the dietization of linus.

    I think you meant "deification." The dietization of Linus might be a good idea--he looks like he could stand to lose a couple of pounds.