[net.micro.68k] 68010 patent not available for awhile...

gnu (04/16/83)

I spoke last week with Jeff Myers in the Patent Dept at Motorola.
They said that the 68010 patent application has been filed, but that
applications are normally kept proprietary until the patent is granted.
This process normally takes from 1.5 to 2.5 or 3 years.  At that point,
the patent is publicly available.  

He did note that several countries, including Japan and Great Britain,
publish patent applications, but that Motorola has not filed this patent
in any of those countries.

So, we'll have to puzzle over the 68000 patent (#4,325,121) for another
year or three before finding out what's inside a 68010.  Sorry to get your
hopes up.

	John Gilmore, Sun Microsystems