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Subject: Re: 68000 Memory Managment
Message-ID: <823@navajo.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: Mon, 8-Sep-86 13:58:05 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep  8 13:58:05 1986
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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