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To: Anand V who wrote (22733)5/23/1997 10:22:00 PM
From: Paul Engel   of 186894
 
Anand V - Re: "... according to legal experts and a preliminary report from a major marketing research firm"

This is utter BULLSH*T!!

First, did this patent attorney sit down and disect every circuit on Intel's Pentium/Pro/II and compare the functional blocks with the claims of DEC?

H*ll no, he didn't - that is an absurdity.

Then - a frigging MARKETING research firm decides that it also has the technical wherewithal to reverse engineer Intel's circuits, and compare the Pentium/Pro/II implementations with DEC's patent claims and pronounce them in violation. Anybody who is stupid enough to fall for this charade is just that - STUPID.

Did you lose your common sense or did you never have any to begin with?

Picture this - it took DEC almost TWO years to come to the conclusion that Intel ALLEGEDLY was violationg DEC patents - and rest assured they would have spent thousands of engineering MAN-HOURS to
reverse engineer Intel's circuits., stripping them back layer-by-layer, trying to piece together the transistors into functional circuits.

And you and some journalist and some lawyer and some marketing firm believe that you can casually make technical dicisons regarding millions of transistors from some of the world's most complex integrated circuits from the seats of their over-stuffed chairs in their offices after a few casual hours of analysis? This is fantasy-land.

Now, check out this additional BULLSH*T from that article:

"But the existing version of the
report says that Digital's history adds
credibility to its patent claims. The company's
semiconductor group has been involved in
high-speed, single-chip computer design
since the heyday of its VAX line in the
mid-1970s. "

The first VAX was released in 1978 - and it was implimented with standard, off-the-shelf TTL logic devices - SSI and MSI. The original VAX central processing unit required 27 large PC boards each the size of a large PIZZA box.

There were thousands of these standard chips (from TI and other vendors) and absolutely there was no single-chip processor in that first VAX!

People who write this GARBAGE, or who repeat it as GOSPEL, belong working as junior desk jockies for the National Enquirer.

Paul
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