A funny thing happened on the way to Transmeta...
Arthur F. Tyde III
Business, Security, Open Source, Performance Computing, AI (e/acc)
Sometimes interesting things happen in the Open Source space - and you wonder how we got from there to here. Funny story - back in the day I owned one of the first Sony ultra-portable VAIO notebooks. Bought it in Japan - loved it, but the only ports on the thing were USB and it ran a very custom version of Win98. I was still the president of the Silicon Valley / Bay Area Linux Users Group and actually managed to get Linux loaded onto it (by pulling the hard disk) as USB was considered very cutting edge and not really supported yet.
A few weeks later at the Linux users group meeting in San Francisco's Chinatown, Linus Torvalds was gracious enough to speak; he had been admiring the Sony. Given that KP had just funded our small Linux venture - I ordered another and brought it to his cubical at Transmeta.
The very next release of the Linux kernel sported surprisingly capable USB support.
CEO of CIQ and founder of Rocky Linux, the RESF, CentOS, Warewulf, and Apptainer (formerly the container system Singularity).
8 年Haha, funny how that works huh? ;-)
Director, Customer Success
8 年It was my dream machine at some point.
I still have my tiny Vaio (505?) in a box. The battery is shot but it still runs fine on A/C power. I boot it occasionally just for grins.