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- From: toddpw@cco.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)
- Subject: Re: Transwarp III
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.021145.28923@cco.caltech.edu>
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- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 02:11:45 GMT
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- fmlin@terapin.com (Frank M. Lin) writes:
-
- >AE's Transwarp III was cancelled due to the war between Rocket Chip and Zip
- >technologies. I think it was too bad... Flipping through my older issues of
- >inCider/A+, I found an ad. for TW3. It was 8mhz, DMA compatible, and
- >upgradable to 12+mhz...
-
- And it, like the RocketChip, violated a Zip hardware patent. Zip was never
- able to recover any significant damages; the primary defendant hid behind a
- declaration of personal bankruptcy. That episode hurt them a lot more than
- they are willing to admit to their customers.
-
- Todd Whitesel
- toddpw @ cco.caltech.edu
-