Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1995 22:53:18 +0200 From: Julian Howard Stacey <jhs@regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> To: davidg@Root.COM Cc: uhclem@nemesis.lonestar.org (Frank Durda IV), freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Memory init pattern Message-ID: <199504182053.WAA00860@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 15 Apr 1995 19:33:33 %2B0200." <199504151733.KAA00867@corbin.Root.COM>
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Re. > Oops, I meant "TI"...but now that I think about it, I don't know how long > TI has been is business. ...but my point still stands about there being > systems far before '78 that used start-up memory tests, however. Texas Instruments ? rumoured to have invented the venerable 7400 series in 1974 ! Some very big companies like British Telecom, (my ex employer _way_ back) would be very upset not to able to continue running start up self tests without paying royalties, they've probably been doing start up self test since before I was born (some long time ago ;-) BT & other large `mostly-computer-consumer' firms have plenty of lawyers, but are probably not so cosily tucked into the big companies incestuous patent sharing (& screw the little guy) arragements, thus if TI push too hard, they just might disturb some powerful opposition. I don't think we need tremble too much from TI's antisocial behaviour :-) Julian S
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