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To: icecreambug who wrote (1753)8/4/1998 5:19:00 PM
From: Frank  Read Replies (2) of 1901
 
The patent is for work done by Scantlin for a Motorola and Apple
contract which was the basis for the 'Meta Espresso' Java chip
that G. Smith was touting.

The architecture for the M6000 was defined by an Indian dude who
went by the name SP, because no one knew how to pronounce his
name.

When I read the patent a while back it appeared to have claims
that I thought were overlapping prior art in significant ways
in some areas. It essentially teaches multiple instruction decodes
into a common internal processor instruction format. In my mind
this is in the marketplace in the IBM workstation/4300 series
machines, as well as a strong patent awarded to Exponential (the
people who cloned the powerpc before they went bankrupt). I believe
that HP and Intel have multiple claims in this area in their
Merced design, which has multiple input instruction formats. I'm
curious as to how this relates to the Pentium. (I'm not totally
sure of the IBM4300 designation, been a while, but I'm referring
to the midrange machines manufactured in Rochester, Mn.)

Anyways, the work was done before the M6000, which had no provision
for multiple instruction sets.

Frank
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