[Coco] Sneak peek

[Mark Marlette]

Even so, if one knows the CoCo/MPI well enough, you just make your own. :)

GAL16V8, can't stick a whole lot of smarts in those chips.

Mark
Cloud-9

At 2/15/2009 08:21 AM, you wrote:
>On Sun, 15 Feb 2009, Ryan Pritchard wrote:
>
>>Hasn't the patent expired on the MPI design so someone can 
>>replicate that thing and put it into production again?
>
>I seriously doubt that Tandy held patents on the MPI.  If you 
>squint, the PAL equations used in the small beige unit might be 
>subject to copyright protection, but that's even a stretch.
>
>The major challenge in cloning the MPI is the mechanical aspect.
>
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