Intel (was Re:GUI)

[James Knott]

Peter L. Peres wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Nov 2003, Henry Spencer wrote:
> 
> 
>>On Sat, 29 Nov 2003, William Park wrote:
>>
>>>>Speak for yourself.  Here they're running on AMD CPUs, plus a few
>>>>other flavors...
>>>
>>>This is borderline amateurish.  Intel gets royalty, for every AMD sold.
>>
>>References, please.  My understanding is that the cross-licensing
>>agreement between Intel and AMD was dissolved long ago, and there is
>>nothing in current AMD CPUs that requires tithing to Intel.  They most
>>certainly are *NOT* making duplicates of Intel's designs -- the AMD ones
>>are markedly better.
> 
> 
> I understand that AMD had to reverse engineer Intel chips (in the sense of
> functional reverse engineering) for quite a while before things settled
> into the current state, with only 'minor' differences in features and
> setup.

At one time, back in the 8080 & 8088 days, AMD licenced from Intel, as 
did a couple of other companies.

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