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From: John Sheahan <jrsheahan@o...>
Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 14:11:53 +1000
Subject: Re: [oc] i386 legally
On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 07:51:02PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Niclas Hedhman wrote:
> >
> >80386 was released ~1987, so patents would be covered for another 8-10
> >years. Exactly what patents there are on the 80386 is hard to know without
> >a search.
> >
>
> It's thus unlikely that if a processor was released in 1987 that there
> would be any valid patents after 2008.
80386 apparently was released 17 October 1985. Protos were around a
few months earlier.
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