[officeplant]

I'm on a discord with a friend who picked up some of the Centaur haul. It has been fascinating to watch him go through testing with all of the platforms different emulation modes where it pretends to be other CPUs (often needed to get some programs to run properly). It is kind of sad VIA couldn't focus more on funding this team and finally join the x86 competition again.

[2000UltraDeluxe]

Via's chips were cool. As in "playing Quake 3 with fan + heatsink removed" cool.

It's a shame their C3 + Savage 4 combo performed to poorly to be a serious competitor; if they'd been a bit faster, subsequent generations would probably have been excellent competitors for the Atom series when the netbook craze hit.