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It may have been interesting, but I had to work on a Japanese PC-like machine that used one of those ... god was this computer slow.

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I was the first person to play Diablo 2 on a Crusoe.

How far along are you? :)

Still waiting for it to load, probably.

There was a scandal where thermal throttling was a big issue. I dont remember if this was a problem from Transmeta or a particular laptop manufacturer, but the CPU could only run at full speed for short bursts.

Five years later (if that!) this was expected behaviour on any x86 laptop!

My original Macbook Air ran its Core2Duo at the rated 1.6 GHz for about 5 seconds before dropping to 1.2 GHz. Thirty seconds later it dropped to 1.0 GHz, and a couple of minutes later to 800 MHz where it could run all day.

In 2019 I had at the same time two machines with i7-8650U CPU: a NUC and a Thinkpad X1 Carbon. The NUC could build riscv-gnu-toolchain (which I did many times a day, as I was helping develop new RISC-V instructions) in 20 minutes with mild throttling (to 3.2 GHz) while the Thinkpad took over 30 minutes with extreme throttling.

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