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To: Scumbria who wrote (49545)	8/13/2000 1:35:34 AM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Hi Scumbria; I don't think that Rambus is claiming origination for double data rate per se. They may be claiming for the use of it in memory, I don't know. The technique is as old as the hills, (as implied by Hume) and probably dates to vacuum tube computers. As far as the general concept of registers on a DRAM, VRAM used plenty of them, and they started shipping no later than 1987. (Look on TI's history on their website, for instance.) Dramreview has a pretty good listing of the Rambus patents, and what they cover. My suspicion is that that is what Rambus is suing based on. -- Carl

To: Scumbria who wrote (49545)	8/13/2000 1:40:44 AM
From: The Prophet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Ah, Scummy, I have a feeling you missed the point of your own discovery; the infringement is probably more subtle than the concept of clocking on both sides of the cycle, but rather has to do with the method by which such goal can be achieved. Hume's point about not being able to get it to work only serves to support the conclusion that it probably was no easy task.