[Arm-netbook] The future of EOMA-68

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 6:10 PM, Christopher Havel <laserhawk64 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 1:05 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at lkcl.net>
> wrote:
>>
>>  it really really is incredibly challenging to pick qualifying SoCs.
>
>
> I'm starting to figure that out ;)

 :)

> due to the way the Crusoe works (it's not natively an x86 CPU but
> soft-emulates one) it's basically the lowest rung on the ladder, bar none.

 i really liked the transmeta idea.  much lower power (higher
performance/watt ratio).  pity they couldn't continue.

 don't the latest loongson's have hard-emulation of the top 200 most
common x86 instructions, meaning that they can emulate x86 code on a
MIPS-based processor at 70% of the speed of an equivalent x86
processor?

l.