I'm glad you dropped them. On the Densitron, it was a matter of a vendor initially agreeing to tell the vendor how to start up memory, and then changing their mind.
A shame, too, but transmeta was always pretty hard to deal with. There was a company that very clearly violated the GPL by shipping a transmeta-based machine running linuxbios, and never releasing source to their customers. They kept telling me transmeta would not let them release the code. I never found out the truth, i.e. who would not allow what to be released. That company is out of business, their code is lost forever. A sad story.
thanks
ron