Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: AMD K6 233 Cpu 465 BogoMips?? | Date | Sat, 05 Sep 1998 14:57:03 -0300 | From | "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <> |
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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.
-- 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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