[geeks] SPARC proprietary

[Bill Bradford]

On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 07:06:46AM -0400, Kevin wrote:
> I thought the SPARC architecture was not proprietary? 
> Am i missing something?

The SPARC architecture is "open", but the UltraSPARC (esp.
UltraSPARC-III) *implementation* is proprietary.

Anybody can build their own SPARC-compatible CPU, but you
can't clone the US-3.

Bill

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