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Amiga & Transmeta?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the weekend-rumors dept.

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.

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  1. Some dude on the street told me this!!!! by Wakko+Warner · · Score: 5
    Guy who lives in back of 7-11 is big into the whole technology thing. For 5 dollars and a package of Winstons he told me this incredible news!!!!

    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!

    - A.P.
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  2. Pictures of the new Amiga!! by Paul+Jakma · · Score: 4
    Amigacentral had a link to some pictures of the new Amiga, it's at:

    http://www.funtime-world.de/beri cht/woa240799.html

    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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  3. Rumors by Tardigrade · · Score: 3

    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?