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What happened to Transmeta, the last big dotcom IPO

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Tepix ◴[12 Nov 25 12:57 UTC] No.45899583[source]▶
I had a pretty slick Toshiba Libretto L1 from Japan at the time - twice as wide as long, with a 1280x600 display.

Its 600Mhz Transmeta Crusoe CPU was pretty slow, unfortunately. Like a Celeron 333Mhz IIRC.

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1. organsnyder ◴[12 Nov 25 14:21 UTC] No.45900536[source]▶
I used a Fujitsu Lifebook P-2046 laptop at university. It had an 800Mhz Crusoe chip. IIRC it shipped with 256 MB of RAM, which I eventually upgraded to 384.

Somehow I managed to tolerate running Gentoo on it. Compiling X, OpenOffice, or Firefox were multi-day affairs. One thing that annoyed me was I could never get the graphics card (an ATI Rage 128 with 4 MB RAM, IIRC) working with acceleration under Linux, and that was when compositing window managers were gaining prevalence; I kept trying to get it working in the hope that it would take a bit of the load off of the struggling CPU.

Despite the bad performance, it worked really well for a college student: it was great for taking notes, and the batteries (extended main and optical drive bay) would easily last a full day of classes. It wouldn't run Eclipse very well, but most of my CS assignments were done using a text editor, anyways.