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From: mk59200@korppi.tut.fi (Kolkka Markku Olavi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Motorola and Hitachi settle
Message-ID: <1990Jul4.063118.20461@funet.fi>
Date: 4 Jul 90 06:31:18 GMT
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Reply-To: mk59200@korppi.tut.fi (Kolkka Markku Olavi)
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In article <3384@crash.cts.com> danb20@pro-graphics.cts.com (Dan Bachmann) writes:
>        When Motorala said to Hitachi, "OK, forget about the 68030, we'll dump
>it and go all out 68000, 68020, and *68040*' Hitachi said, 'We'll try to sue
>you a second time because your 68040 is based on the 68030 which is based on
>our chip (h8)'

No, the 68030 isn't based on the H8, the TLB patent that Hitachi owns
has nothing to do with the H8 processor.  Motorola sued Hitachi because
they think H8 violates some of their patents. Hitachi is a second
source of 68000, and the H8 architechture remotely resembles that of
68000.

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	Markku Kolkka
	mk59200@tut.fi