Re: AMD K6 233 Cpu 465 BogoMips??

Jamie Lokier (lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Sat, 5 Sep 1998 19:00:51 +0100


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.

> 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
> on a motherboard that doesn't support PCI.)

Is PCI covered by patents?
Am I violating patents when I design & build PCI devices?

-- Jamie

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