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From: sccowan@watmsg.waterloo.edu (S. Crispin Cowan)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: was: Don't look back. What about looking east?
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Date: 16 Mar 89 09:11:55 GMT
References: <7287@spool.cs.wisc.edu> <2851@eos.UUCP> <728@vector.UUCP>
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In article <728@vector.UUCP> chip@vector.UUCP (Chip Rosenthal) writes:
>So, you can discuss the issue of uP's from a viewpoint of design and
>architectural dominance, which is probably the issue of greatest interest
>to readers here.  However, process dominance can lead to ownership of the
>merchant uP and controller market, and these "less interesting" processors
>are the bread and butter which fuel R&D on advanced processors.
>
>This is what makes the recent Intel/NEC copyright decision so interesting.
>-- 
>Chip Rosenthal     chip@vector.UUCP    |      Choke me in the shallow water
>Dallas Semiconductor   214-450-5337    |         before I get too deep.

I seemed to have missed something here (*(^%& course work load :-);
what _was_ the Intel/NEC decision result?  I've seen several posters
refer to it in passing in the last few days, but no discussion of the
actual result.

Crispin
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