One interesting tidbit to emerge from Transmeta is the news that it has
hired Linus Torvalds, the designer of the Linux operating system. Apart
from Torvalds' considerable software skills, he's plugged into an influential
community of Unix programmers, whichcould give Transmeta a big leg up in
any effort to design a processor tuned to handle real-world networked applications.
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