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[Dave McGuire]

On February 27, Stefan Skoglund wrote:
> > It's not the government-escrow encryption chip. It's an Intergraph
> > designed and built processor. Intergraph and Intel are still enbroiled in
> > a suit in which Intergraph states that Intel stole patented features from
> > the Clipper processor and implemented them into the Pentium line without
> > Intergraph's permission or license. One of those, we'll do this, or you
> > won't get your processors.
> 
> Wrong. Fairchild did the clipper line of processors.
> They are from the same time-frame as early sparc, i860, m88000
> and early ibm rs6000.

  I was seeing marketing literature for Clipper processors back in
1985 or so...a good bit before the early SPARCs, I believe.

            -Dave McGuire