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Crusoe Exposed

Discovered this two-part in-depth reverse engineering of the Transmeta Crusoe processor, a unique microprocessor that used a VLIW architecture (Very Long Instruction Word) and a code-morphing hypervisor to run x86 software transparently, by translating code on the fly. There still doesn't appear to be any official public information regarding the internet architecture of the Transmeta CPU -- which at the time was understandable as it was surmised that the Transmeta codemorpher did not fully implement Intel protected mode, user/supervisor modes and other features that would add overhead and were not necessarily important for running Windows XP. Some of the parts of this article had to be recovered from Internet Archive and I included them in one PDF file. May revise this with better formatting. Source: "Anonymous" on Real World Technologies websire Part 1: https://www.realworldtech.com/crusoe-intro/ Part 2: https://www.realworldtech.com/crusoe-exposed/

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