<fwd>Linus has a real job.

[Rodney Thayer]

Transmeta's tracks are all over the net.  They surf a lot, the domain
transmeta.com shows up in web sites (assuming they own their own name).
They have fresh venture money, from spring 1996 timeframe.  They are in the
Semiconductor business, probably designing or building chips as they are
buying silicon compilers.

15 minutes with altavista and webcrawler can be quite productive.

Look for a custom processor designed to boot linux as soon as you plug it
into the 1.5 volt powercell wired into the heel of your Nike?


At 03:25 PM 10/16/96 -0400, you wrote:
>From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at cs.Helsinki.FI>
>On Wed, 16 Oct 1996, Jim Nance wrote:
>> 
>> > I'll be leaving for a week in the US this Sunday (househunting), and quite
>> > frankly I'd like to get the five "critical" points above fixed first. The
>> > "small but many" things (adding error checking) will probably have to wait
>> > until I get back.  They are important too, but they aren't _fundamental_
>> > important, if you get my drift. 
>> 
>> Are you moving to the US?  You didn't go and get a job did you?
>
>Ok, folks, DON'T PANIC.
>
>[ inline: Linus running around in circles and tearing his hair out ]
>
>Now, it had to be told some day. I have a life. There. I did it. I came out
>of the closet. It's sad, it's shocking, but it's true. I even have a
>girlfriend [ collective GASP ], and it all adds up to the fact that it had to
>happen sooner or later. I'm getting a RealJob(tm). 
>
>[ inline: Linus frantically trying to explain that a university position is
>  _too_ a real job, while everybody else just stands around and laughs at 
>  him. Is too! ]
>
>I thought I'd be subtle and tell it to the mailing lists first. The idea was
>that the mailing list people would tend to be saner than most people who read
>the newsgroups and not panic too badly.  Well, that was a theory of mine, but
>maddog tells me the stampede already started. Bad theory. 
>
>Again, DON'T PANIC. It's not the end of the world. It's not the end of me
>doing Linux. Unlike my current job at the university (and that _is_ a real
>job, you just never noticed. is too!) the new job description will even
>explicitly say that I'll be doing Linux part time. 
>
>So yes, I'll be in the Bay Area next week looking for a place to live with my
>girlfriend and our two cats. We won't actually move there until February next
>year or so. 
>
>Oh, did I already mention that you shouldn't panic? I did? Good. Don't.  It
>all just means that I'll be living in the US for a while, and making more
>money than I am at the university and doing so in better weather. 
>
>		Linus
>
>PS. Company called Transmeta. Don't bother looking them up, they aren't
>advertising. They are in the business of getting the best minds in the
>industry and doing cool things that I won't tell you about. Not selling
>Linux, so it's not unfair competition in that field. 
>
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