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Transmeta To Add 'NX' Antivirus Feature To Chips

Posted by timothy on from the nix-'em dept.

Autoversicherung writes points to a ZDNet story which says that "Transmeta will support "No Execute," or NX, in their next core revision. Transmeta will provide advance versions of Efficeon-based systems with NX support to Microsoft for testing. Hope Linus get a few too, even if he's no longer working there. The NX-equipped Efficeon chips are due for general release later this year."

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  1. First post!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    WOOT!

  2. FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    FIRST POST!

  3. In before virus disables NX sector by unterderbrucke · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    btw, wasn't Transmeta played out after their big new technology was having Linux on chip?

  4. Somewhat OT, but.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The quote in the slashdot headline here points out something really great about Linux and open source in general. It mentions submitting to MS for testing. From a Linux perspective, how wonderful it must be to be able to get complete access to pre-release software and code and test all you like without being at the mercy of a third party company. How could a hardware vendor not like this? You are in complete control over whether your product is supported in a release or not. Hooray for open source.

  5. Re:Let me guess... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Damn

    You're so funny

    Really, I mean

    shit you're funny

    Really...

    I mean it...

    Even my wife thinks you're funny

    and God knows she's had to make laugh these days, with her terminal cancer and all

    so I mean, you must be really funny to make my wife laugh

    despite her terminal cancer

    Really you're funny...

  6. In other news by maximilln · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Speaking of viruses...

    In Massachusetts two guys can get tax credits and social security benefits for banging each other in the butt...

    And I still can't smoke a doobie legally. WTF?

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  7. Motherboards! Please! by steveha · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'd really like to build a computer with one of these new chips. I hope someone will release a motherboard.

    Ideally we could choose from MicroATX or mini-ITX, but if I had to pick one I think I'd pick MicroATX.

    I'd like to make a computer that is totally silent when it is idle, but has enough power to play DVDs (with some resolution upsampling for a large monitor). I'd like it to have some expansion capability, too.

    And I'd totally love to see a new mini-rackmount form factor, based on mini-ITX, but that's probably such a tiny geekish market segment that no one will try to sell into it.

    And as long as I'm dreaming, I'd love a 2-way or 4-way Efficeon SMP motherboard. It would always be snappy and responsive, would have plenty of power for my day-to-day tasks, and could still be really quiet or (I hope) totally silent. With the 90 nanometer cores, I'll bet you could put passive heatsinks on a pair of Efficeons without having problems with overheating.

    steveha

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  8. Fixed links by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Transsexuals in Olympics

    Chinese fucking it up

    fuckign slashdot

  9. Re:How well will this work against VBScript viruse by Deraj+DeZine · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Transmeta has cured the common cold? I believe a Nobel Prize is in order!

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    True story.
  10. Cars by pipingguy · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    Oh great, I get mod points and I have to up/down comments about some stupid car.