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Re:What happened to Transmeta, the last big dotcom IPO by hinkley on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @03:12PM (#45905791)
I believe it was HP who accidentally tried this while making an early equivalent of Rosetta to deal with a hardware change on their mainframes and mini computers. They modified it to run same-same translations and they did get notable performance improvements by doing so.

I’m pretty sure this experiment happened before Transmeta existed, or when it was still forming. So it ended up being evidence that what they were doing might work. It also was evidence that Java wasn’t completely insane to exist.

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Re:What happened to Transmeta, the last big dotcom IPO by FullyFunctional on Friday November 14, 2025 @10:47AM (#45927956)
The Dynamo project was the genesis of a similar effort at Sun Microsystems which was the genesis of Transmeta Corp (all founders came from Sun). The question remains if the original study was flawed or if the situation was just too different for our x86 workloads.
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