Re: Cyrix anyone?
rdm@tad.micro.umn.edu
24 Jun 1996 22:21:47 -0000
> > > Heheh.. look on http://www.x86.org and its all there. The P6 manual is also
> > > complete in most respects and they've not done anything stupid
> >
> > Uhm... everything except the Appendix H (must be signed under NDA), in one
> > of the pages...
> >
> > A lot of the stuff that's reputed to be in Appendix H is on that page.
>
> Duuuh! If Cyrix used this info they would lose any court case.
> That was my point. Sure we can use what we want, and even reverse
> engineer stuff...the big boys don't care about us (yet). It is an
> entirely a different matter when a billion dollar company steals the
> secrets of another.
Stuff on www.x86.org which is in Appendix H but which also is
available through other means (e.g. via official documentation on
other chips, or through prerelease information, or through intel's
cdrom, ...) wouldn't get Cyrix in trouble.
It would be really interesting if Cyrix included in their engineering
of their next design a publically available suite of code developed to
run quickly on high-end intel platforms. [Say..., perhaps... Linux.]
Please followup to linux-offtopic@binary9.net.
--
Raul