Subject: Re: NuVAX revisited
To: Lord Isildur <mrfusion@umbar.vaxpower.org>
From: Matt London <matt@knm.yi.org>
List: port-vax
Date: 06/26/2001 22:04:06
On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Lord Isildur wrote:
> If we do our own implementation, i dont think anybody could complain- the
> architecture was published in the VARM, and we are merely making a
> compatible implementation. We could always call them Stored Program
> Analyzers if somebody objects to calling them a vax... *grin*
> doing it from the prints would not be so clean legally.. but then,
> were not selling them. would the Q care?
> i doubt it. they already have shown how much they care about the VAX .
>
Hrm, maybe if we actually start making progress we should check with them
- after all, how much could they bother about the design of a processor
that's 20 years old, the family of which is no longer in production.
> On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Matt London wrote:
> > Sounds a lot like a plan to me (and hard work - but that's no stranger)
> >
> > Even if we never got it into hardware, to get that far would be quite an
> > achievment :&)
> >
> > Where do we stand regarding copyright and the like?
>
>
-- Matt
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