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To: Jack L. Dlugach who wrote (20550)	8/1/1997 1:19:00 PM
From: Petz	of 1577576

Jack, Steve, re: Exponential patent. I also heard that DEC has a similar patent (call it 'patent x') and that their hoping that disclosure documents on their current patent suit against Intel will reveal that Intel is violating patent x. The jist of patent x is a method of supporting two instruction sets in a processor (in this case, the instruction sets are the Pentium/MMX instruction set and the 64-bit Merced-native instruction set). DEC successfully came up with a method to support PDP-11 instruction set and VAX instruction set. My understanding of DEC is that one thing they've done right is patent their ideas. In reading details of the current suit against Intel, I think it is extremely likely that the Pentium II violates some of their patents. The patents are extremely specific, and if DEC can get a jury with an average IQ of 100 (not easy!), they'll win. If anyone thinks that DEC will sell a potential windfall of billions of dollars for a 2% discount on Pentium chips they are mistaken. (PS, I don't own any DEC yet)

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