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to: Sunny Leung
from: Poe Lim
date: 1996-05-07 00:29:16
subject: USR SDL

Hello Sunny,

On May 04 20:31 in a msg to Poe Lim, Sunny Leung of 3:712/505 wrote:

 PM> The TI DSP in my courier is made by Texas Instruments BUT
 PM> (c) copyright by US Robotics. So is it generally available
 PM> or made specially for USR??

 PL> Don't know; didn't think USR would use enough to justify a special
 PL> line for their chips. 

 SL> The (c) probably refers to the USR code embedded in the chip. It's
 SL> like writing on paper - the copyright protection only goes to the
 SL> expression of the material printed on the paper, not to the paper
 SL> itself. 

Possibly, but the code should be in the ROM, unless they use special chips
where they can blow the pathways.

Cheers,
Poe

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