Thank you for the well written response.
As you note, not much in the area of facts yet. For the record, I
do not currently have a stock position in INTEL.
I did find the fact that DEC had threatened to sue Microsoft over NT, (post #21826.. source Dow Jones,Inc.) rather interesting. It would
lend credence to the also posted theory that DEC either has, or think they have, a very broad patent covering any architecture based on
native 32 bit applications. This would be analogous, IMO, to saying
"we patented the way to exit a room with 4 walls a ceiling, a floor
and one door. It is called:"Open the door"." Such a patent while
at one point in the evolutionary process of man might have been considered a brilliant innovation, would now be ruled as FAR too
broad and archaic to be worth the papyrus it was written on. It is
in the public domain.
I know some people who did consulting work for Intel in the very early
1990's. Intel was vigorously working on the Pentuim, Pro & II back
then. To say they did NO R & D is ludricrous. They hired friends of
mine to come in and consult. They sat in meetings with R & D teams.
Unless Intel was paying these people to sit in a room and play Gin
rummy "just to make things look good".
Regards,
Doug |
