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Article #1473Re: 68000 Memory Managment
From: rokicki
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 1986 17:58
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 1986 17:58
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In article <6985@sun.uucp>, ludemann@sun.uucp (Jim Ludemann) writes: > I hate to tell you folks, but Andy Bechtolsheim here at Sun has a patent > (applied for and granted) on using the untranslated addresses as the > RAS addresses and doing the MMU address translation before the column > addresses are needed for CAS. Sooner or later, it's going to cost some > competitors a WHOLE lot of money. How the hell can the patent office grant patents like this? It's sort of like patenting the idea of grounding DTACK on a 68000 or putting chocolate ice cream in root beer; the idea is too obvious. To coin a phrase, it's patently ridiculous. -tom
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!ut-sally!husc6!panda!genrad!decvax!decwrl!glacier!navajo!rokicki From: rokicki@navajo.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16,net.micro.amiga,net.micro.68k Subject: Re: 68000 Memory Managment Message-ID: <823@navajo.STANFORD.EDU> Date: Mon, 8-Sep-86 13:58:05 EDT Article-I.D.: navajo.823 Posted: Mon Sep 8 13:58:05 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 9-Sep-86 06:04:00 EDT References: <508@elmgate.UUCP> <64@mit-prep.ARPA> <510@elmgate.UUCP> <6985@sun.uucp> Organization: Stanford University Lines: 13 Summary: What?