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SubjectRe: AMD K6 233 Cpu 465 BogoMips??
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In message <19980905190051.F3471@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>, Jamie Lokier 
writes
:
+-----
| On Fri, Sep 04, 1998 at 07:38:08PM -0300, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
| > Whatever happened to the "Free Hardware Foundation", which was doing just
| You mean it exists already? Darn, I was thinking of starting one with
| that name.
+--->8

It *did* exist at one point. I haven't heard anything from or about them in
several years, though.

| > Unfortunately, I can guess: as soon as your design includes PCI you're up
| > the creek. Intel has you by the short ones. (And just try selling someone
|
| Is PCI covered by patents?
| Am I violating patents when I design & build PCI devices?
+--->8

As I understand it, you have to license PCI to use it in hardware. I don't
think it's Intel *directly*, but rather a consortium which for all intents
and purposes acts as a proxy for them.

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brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net
system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu
electrical and computer engineering KF8NH
carnegie mellon university



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