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Transmeta TMS5xxx Reverse Engineered

Posted by timothy on from the they're-still-around-y'know dept.

Richard W.M. Jones writes "This fascinating article, published anonymously, dissects the Transmeta TMS5xxx architecture, revealing how to access and modify the code-morphing code, how the instruction set works, and tells why you won't be able to run Linux directly on this chip."

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  1. Imagine... by ihtagik · · Score: 0, Redundant

    a beowulf cluster of these...

    Wait, you can't run Linux on these...directly.

    (That comment was sooo 2001)

    But on a more serious note, the Transmeta chips would have been pretty interesting from a clustering standpoint due to their low power consumption and heat dissipation. It is sad that they can't run Linux directly.

  2. Great Scott! by stuffduff · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Now that it's shown that TransMeta may have borrowed from IBM, how long until SCO makes claims against it!

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    "Can there be a Klein bottle that is an efficient and effective beer pitcher?"