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To: Petz who wrote (33346)6/17/1998 9:47:00 PM
From: Elmer  Respond to of 1573891
 
Re "Very true, but this is not proprietary, but something that patent lawyers refer to as "obvious to those skilled in the art." The BSB may be proprietary in the particular way Intel implemented it, but it is not necessary with an internal L2 cache."

You're right, it's not proprietary at all. The protocol is what's proprietary. As for BSB, others are doing it as well and there are no patent issues AFAIK.

EP


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