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Amiga & Transmeta?
kmj9907 its all the buzz- apparently the latest rumor is that Amiga and Transmeta will be working
together on the new line of Amiga boxes. There still isn't concrete
news, but the rumors have been propogating as fast as electrons can
carry them around the net.
Nonexistent processor for nonexistent OS. Amgia and Transmeta deserve each other. Let's see which one can con the other into thinking it really has something to show for all those years of secrecy,
indecision, and failure to ship a product.
In my opinion, Transmeta needs Amiga as much as Amiga needs Transmeta to keep the game alive. Thereby Transmeta may continue to pump the hype surrounding their nonexistent processor - implying that somebody actually plans to use their much-hyped technology for something. Since everyone knows that Amiga will do no such thing,
but will just change its mind after another 6 months, Transmeta doesn't have to actually produce anything, but can attract investment based on such speculation. His emminence the Linus is just employed there to lend credibility to Transmeta's claims that it has a product under development, Linux being such a solid and reliable guy and all.
It's fun to pretend.
The new Amiga CPU will be the fastest CPU ever created and there will never be one faster than it. It was so fast that the Bytemark tests needed to be re-coded to use long doubles instead of integers for the resulting score. He said it can encode an entire CD into MP3s in under 12 seconds, it's cracked RC5-DES in just under 4 minutes (the encoded message was "Eat your liverwurst, it's good for you," by the way), and it rendered all the water scenes in the Titanic sequel during the union-mandated lunch break yesterday afternoon. It beat Deep Blue the other day at checkers and tomorrow it's playing tennis against Agassi (the Amiga is a 3-2 favorite). Steve Jobs saw it and had to change his pants, and Andy Grove is still semi-catatonic over the whole deal. Wcarchive replaced cdrom.com's old machine with one just yesterday and upped the user limit to 65,535. It makes the lightest, fluffiest pancakes you've ever tasted and it brews a mean lager. It downed a bottle of JD and didn't even flinch.
Suffice it to say, everyone will want one. It also comes in puce.
Woo!
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From the LinuxToday story, it's been noted that the story was written by and reported by an Anthony Kilna. A whois query turns up a record for METAMIGA.COM, registered 17 July, 1999. The phone number listed, (619) 677-9830, responds with a "disconnected or no longer in service" message.
Which isn't to say this is a fake, but I'm dubious at present. There are details BTW at http://www.kilna.com/.
I've emailed Anthony for more information, we'll have to wait and see what turns up.
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Yeah, check out my post in one of the earlier amiga stories (the Amiga-uses-Linux one, I think). And several other people reached the same conclusion.
I know I had a post with that guess, but I'm sure I got the idea from a previous post. However, a possible bit of evidence (and quite possibly just scurrilous rumor) is that I understand Linus himself is doing work on the USB drivers, which would be something one would need for a new architecture that relies on USB-only input devices.
Ooh, a sarcasm detector. Oh, that's a real useful invention.
Amiga made a bad choice (in their opinion) with QNX. Then QNX steamrolled them with a perfectly timed announcement, which would either force Amiga to admit to having switched without being able to produce the docs and SDK, or would force them to lay low and try to conceal the switch.
QNX knew that either choice would divide the Amiga community and leave more customers for them.
Clever.
Now why is the Amiga community falling for it? Don't abandon Amiga for QNX until QNX actually HAS something.
-Billy
But just because the rumor partly started here doesn't mean it's not true -- it seems fairly logical to me.
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Real sleek black box with a couple of USB ports on the front, and a sleek futuristic monitor to match. If it costs less than £600, then it's worth buying for looks alone.
(and i don't care what CPU it uses!!!)
Also, this transmeta thing could be very real. Eg John Carmack just posted to G200-devel that he was at TransMeta this week discussing about 3D with their engineers, and that Linus *really* wants linux to have good 3D support!! So it sounds to me like transmeta are at a pretty advanced stage. They've been working on it for 2-3 years now, why shouldn't it be ready?
(if you don't believe me check the g200 devel list archive, and no i don't have the url. get of your lazy arse and find it yourself!) :)
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amigacentral is also reporting this, and has a shot of the image mentioned on linuxtoday, see http://www.amigacentral.com/news.html
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Isn't slashdot one of the places these rumors started? This is like a news source creating it's own news. Would this have happened on a site that wasn't so into Linux, and therefore Linus and Transmeta?
I was sitting around the office the other day, reading the latest amiga news on /. and at the top of my lungs yelled out "I'm f**king sick of amiga! They're going the way of transmeta! If they don't bring out hal9000 on a watch I'm just gonna snap!"
And people thought starwars was too hyped????
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Sorry I guess I was misinformed, but it was stated as just my understanding and was perfectly open to correction which I thank Hal for doing (assuming he is right).
As far as I know the Emotion Engine is a graphics+T 'n' L setup chip (trasformation and lighting), like the nVidia NV10. I think that Amiga is going with an ATI rage chip for graphics, so that would rule out the EE, as for the wonderfull 128bit CPU on the Playstation 2, I doubt sony would licens that. they might, but since they put the word 'Transmeta' and have been hinting at an aliance, (plus the Linus Torvlads thing) I think Transmeta is actualy a more likely bet.
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I just got back from the WoA show in London, where I was witness to Jim Collas' speech.
Nothing was specifically said about Transmeta. What did happen was they showed a video, where several logos were flashed up on the screen (Sun, Corel, Transmeta), and they then went on to talk about various future partnerships. In the actual speech bits, they mentioned Sun and Corel, but not Transmeta. As far as I'm aware, that's all there is, unless more was said at the Amiwest show.