But we should be careful anyway, though. If they see this, and think
it could generate enough cash for them, they just might whack us. But I
think we would be safe if we call it an emulator, because it won't be a Vax,
per se, as they were originally built, right?

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! -----Original Message-----
! From: Lord Isildur [mailto:mrfusion@umbar.vaxpower.org]
! Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 4:58 PM
! To: Matt London
! Cc: Chuck McManis; port-vax@netbsd.org
! Subject: Re: NuVAX revisited
! 
! 
! If we do our own implementation, i dont think anybody could 
! complain- the
! architecture was published in the VARM, and we are merely making a
! compatible implementation. We could always call them Stored Program 
! Analyzers if somebody objects to calling them a vax... *grin*
! doing it from the prints would not be so clean legally.. but then, 
! were not selling them. would the Q care?
! i doubt it. they already have shown how much they care about the VAX .
! 
! On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Matt London wrote:
! > Sounds a lot like a plan to me (and hard work - but that's 
! no stranger)
! > 
! > Even if we never got it into hardware, to get that far 
! would be quite an
! > achievment :&)
! > 
! > Where do we stand regarding copyright and the like?
!