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To: Petz who wrote (8689)	9/15/2000 1:04:29 PM
From: kapkan4u	Read Replies (3) of 275872

I am not a lawyer, but I don't think one needs a license to an instruction set to build a compatible processor. I don't think that AMD has a license to SSE/SSE-2 or x86/x87 instructions for that matter. AMD bought a license for MMX, but they did it before Intel made the MMX instructions public. After signing with AMD, Intel released MMX instructions few days later to the public. This was just another illustration of Intel's unscrupulous nature. Kap

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