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Re:What happened to Transmeta, the last big dotcom IPO by onecommentman on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @07:58PM (#45909114)
The “bunch of cheap computers” approach was being studied and implemented at the National Labs years before Google showed up. Revisionist history?
Re:What happened to Transmeta, the last big dotcom IPO by jasonwatkinspdx on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @08:16PM (#45909233)
Not revisionist I think just more that a lot of people first encountered the concept with the story of Google and don't know it had plenty of precedent.