Comment Transmeta: The True Story (Score 1) 152
Your right, this secrecy thing is starting to get kind of annoying. But you are wrong about what they are *really* doing.
Back in the 40's, at Roswell, New Mexico, an alien spacecraft crashed during a storm. The reason was that their flight control computer crashed when "Mega-Shift Galactic Traveler" (hmmm...) crashed into a green screen of death. So, anyways, the military finds them and brings them to a base and... ooops... I can't talk about it. To make a long, twisted, secret story short, the aliens just said "wait".
50 years later, in the 1990's, the aliens come back to life as executives at a startup chip designing firm, which, for the sake of taste, will remain nameless. They say they want a new computer system that will run anything without crashing, so they enlist the help of the planet's best computer programmer, who will also remain nameless. Unfortunately, according to their plans, they attract alot of attention because of the programmer they hired. Quoted from a private interview, one of the aliens stated, "We want a chip because the earth is despicable and we want out." Other than this, they were unavailable for comment.
They had to give the press something, so they gave them the plans for their original computer that left them stranded here.
They eventually design and manufacture their chip, which becomes a big hit in the portable computer market, though it left people wondering why. "Wasn't this supposed to be powerfull?" they all said. What they didn't know is that it was designed to be portable so they could bring it back to their mother ship without needing a big space-semi. They also didn't know that it received the majority of it's design inspiration from the 4004. Yes, that's right, the 4004.
It looks like the aliens are in for a long stay.
(That's kind of a "trans-mental" story, don't you say?)
Back in the 40's, at Roswell, New Mexico, an alien spacecraft crashed during a storm. The reason was that their flight control computer crashed when "Mega-Shift Galactic Traveler" (hmmm...) crashed into a green screen of death. So, anyways, the military finds them and brings them to a base and... ooops... I can't talk about it. To make a long, twisted, secret story short, the aliens just said "wait".
50 years later, in the 1990's, the aliens come back to life as executives at a startup chip designing firm, which, for the sake of taste, will remain nameless. They say they want a new computer system that will run anything without crashing, so they enlist the help of the planet's best computer programmer, who will also remain nameless. Unfortunately, according to their plans, they attract alot of attention because of the programmer they hired. Quoted from a private interview, one of the aliens stated, "We want a chip because the earth is despicable and we want out." Other than this, they were unavailable for comment.
They had to give the press something, so they gave them the plans for their original computer that left them stranded here.
They eventually design and manufacture their chip, which becomes a big hit in the portable computer market, though it left people wondering why. "Wasn't this supposed to be powerfull?" they all said. What they didn't know is that it was designed to be portable so they could bring it back to their mother ship without needing a big space-semi. They also didn't know that it received the majority of it's design inspiration from the 4004. Yes, that's right, the 4004.
It looks like the aliens are in for a long stay.
(That's kind of a "trans-mental" story, don't you say?)
