Mark Gregory wrote:
> Last night, I attended the 175th monthly meeting of the Amiga Users of
> Calgary. That didn't seem like much until I did the math; that's 14.5 years
> of meetings (!)...
> Cheers,
> Mark G.
This brings to mind the fact that (at least the first of) the Amiga
patents should be expiring within the next two or three years. This should
mean something to Amiga hobbyists, shouldn't it? I've seen people
implementing 6502 cores in FPGAs these days. Surely the Amiga custom chips
would be good candidates for similar treatment when Gateway no longer has the
right to sue somebody to make them quit. (Gateway still owns the patents even
though they no longer own the Amiga trademark. What they plan to do with them
in the next couple years -- aside from keeping others from making good use of
them -- is beyond me.)
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Joel Ewy
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Received on Sat Apr 21 2001 - 20:04:59 BST