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What happened to Transmeta, the last big dotcom IPO

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180 points onename | 2 comments | 12 Nov 25 09:01 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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bohrbohra ◴[12 Nov 25 10:42 UTC] No.45898593[source]▶
All I know about Transmeta is that Linus Torvalds moved over from Finland to the USA to work at this startup.

Other than that, it seems to have sunk without a trace.

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MikeNotThePope ◴[12 Nov 25 15:13 UTC] No.45901214[source]▶
I worked at Transmeta. I remember for the launch of one of the Crusoe-powered laptops, there was a bug that prevented the BIOS from booting Linux. Since the laptop was only going to run Windows ME, they didn’t fix it. Of course when Linus got a demo unit to play with, the first thing he did was try to install Linux on it. He let everyone know, and the bug was fixed soon there after.
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1. Barbing ◴[12 Nov 25 15:35 UTC] No.45901448[source]▶
Nice.

Glad you were a part of it at the time?

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2. MikeNotThePope ◴[12 Nov 25 17:27 UTC] No.45902930[source]▶
My job was essentially playing videos games for two years to stress test the chips. I was pretty good at Diablo 2 by the end of my run :) It was one of my better jobs!