" OK, could be. My memory gets kind of fuzzy going that far back. :)"
What were you 5? ;) - WJR On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 11:55 AM, Ben Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 9:16 AM, Steven M. Caesare <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> The "(C)Intel" is a copyright notice. It was designed and made by > >> AMD, but AMD licensed some Intel intellectual property for it. :) > > > > You say Intel licensed "some" intellectual property... I believe AMD > > licensed the 80286 from Intel as a whole. > > OK, could be. My memory gets kind of fuzzy going that far back. :) > > > Certainly there are several levels of "design" (package, carrier, > > layout, etc...) but I think lots of folks think of "instruction set & > > processing architecture" when referring to designing a chip family, like > > the 286. > > AMD, at some point, started cloning x86. Intel would introduce an > instruction set extension and AMD would do their own implementation. > Or so AMD claimed. The two have spent a lot of time in and out of > court fighting over it. > > -- Ben > > >
