Author: Fortunately I didn't go

‘???’

When this sentence appeared, Ethan Jones was completely confused!

Is the first generation of Shenxin 6502 developed based on Motorola 6800?

Damn it!

Then isn’t this just a shady plagiarism?

Under his questioning, Chuck Pador also told the situation facing MOS 6502.

It turned out that after leaving Motorola, these engineers from Motorola immediately began to develop cheap chips, but how is the problem of developing chips that is that simple?

Every morning after work, they spread out the drawings on their desks, then looked at them for a day with a cup of coffee, a pack of cigarettes, and a piece of white paper.

They were unable to write for a long time.

It’s not that I can’t draw it.

But I don't know how to draw it.

Because they developed the Motorola 6800 before!

When your invention has been tested by the market and you are sure that there is no problem, if you ask them to change their ideas and make them again, isn’t that just killing them?

In this case, they racked their brains for a long time and finally made a little innovation and designed a CPU called MOS 6501.

And what are the innovations of this CPU?

It solved some bugs in Motorola 6800...

If you disassemble the computer with Motorola 6800, remove the 6800 on it and then solder the MOS 6501, you will find that the machine can still operate normally. Not only that, the performance of the 6501 is also better than that of the 6800!

When such a fact appeared, Chuck Pador and others were stunned!

Because they know that this is plagiarism.

It's just me copying myself.

Because they didn't know how to deal with this kind of thing, they sent a letter to Motorola, telling Motorola about the situation of MOS 6501.

Then--

Motorola sued MOS.

Motorola said that MOS infringed its patent rights and asked MOS to stop infringement and compensate for losses.

Since MOS is just a small company established in 1969, in order to ensure that its company can operate normally, they can only reach an out-of-court settlement with Motorola in one go.

He voluntarily gave up the MOS 6501 product and paid Motorola $200,000.

Since MOS took the initiative to inform this matter, and most of MOS engineers came out of Motorola, Motorola was too lazy to care after apologizing and compensating.

Chuck Pador and others who were unwilling to give up their dreams have developed a chip, MOS 6502.

"So...will your MOS 6502 infringement?"

Chuck Pidor's description made Ethan Jones feel a little tooth-ache.

He never expected that the reason why MOS products are so cheap is because the R&D costs are very low?

What the hell is this special code?

After hearing Ethan Jones' question, Chuck Pador on the other end of the phone smiled helplessly: "Ethan, I can only tell you this way, MOS 6502 and Motorola 6800 are incompatible, and at the same time, MOS

6502 adopts a newer manufacturing process.”

'have to!'

Ethan understood.

The architecture of MOS 6502 is probably not much different from that of Motorola 6800.

And this may be a problem that Chuck Pido will never solve.

After all, people have fixed ideas.

When a person firmly believes that there is no error in his direction, he can only turn back when he hits the south wall.

But Ethan felt a little uncomfortable when he thought of the indescribable relationship between 6502 and Motorola.

When Kingsoft in front of you has legal problems...

So what exactly is the glitz-like appearance he sees?

Is it real gold that is easy to obtain, or is it smelly shit?

Ethan didn't know.

But he knew that before purchasing the authorization, he had to ask the key point clearly.

"So, Mr. Pador, have you consulted with a lawyer?"

This question made Chuck Pador sigh and said, "Ethan, our company has legal affairs, and they told me that if Motorola really wants to sue us again, we may still be sentenced to infringement."

"Is there a way to solve it?"

“We are working hard.”

"Then I wonder, since you don't have a patent, how dare you sell products? And as far as I know, will you attend the San Francisco Electronics Show in September?"

"Uh... Since you believe in us so much, then we will tell you directly. That's just a temporary plan. If there is really a problem, we can't go. As for the issue of selling... I'll tell you this, if someone buys us

We will not produce it if no one buys it. After doing this, when Motorola really sues us, we can minimize the losses. At the same time, if we can sell a large number of chips at once, it will be considered as a little bit for the market.

Things you can do.”

After continuing to communicate for a few words, Ethan hung up the phone.

After leaning against the table and thinking about it for a while, Ethan became more and more wrong.

Is MOS 6502 actually an infringing product?

So how did it sell out in its previous life?

Reconciliation with Motorola?

Or found a solution?

Ethan couldn't find any memories related to it.

At the same time, he also doubted whether Chuck Pador was fooling himself.

It’s just because they don’t want to authorize that they claim to have legal problems?

When he asked the little fat man who came back tonight with this idea, the little fat man's first reaction was also surprised, and the second reaction was to help Ethan ask someone.

After he made a few calls and called uncles several times, Ethan also got the truth from him.

"Chuck and the others said nothing wrong."

"Motorola did sue them before and demanded them compensation of one million yuan, and in the end it was indeed settled, with two hundred thousand yuan."

"It seems that I'm wrong, this is indeed a bit troublesome."

Woz's words made Ethan a little troubled.

The one who had a headache more than him was actually Jobs.

After Woz had dinner and got into the garage, he also came to Ethan and asked nervously: "Will this legal issue have an impact on computer sales?"

Ethan spread his hands and said, "It will definitely not affect normal use, but it is hard to say anything else."

"I'll make an analogy. You buy a batch of 6502 now and sell them in a computer. Motorola cannot stop this. Even in this process, Motorola sued MOS, won the lawsuit and stopped 6502.

The production of these chips that have already flowed into the market will not be recovered."

"but……"

"What if the 6502 is used up?"

"What chip should you use?"

“There is no such cheap alternative on the market.”

The fact that "Oh!Sxxt!" caused Steve Jobs to curse.

He kicked up anger and kicked it on the chair.

Immediately afterwards, there was a scattered sound of clanging sound.

The orange-yellow wooden chairs and the old floor collided with each other, making waves of pain.

Then...

Steve Jobs left his home and rode his motorcycle and didn't know where to go.

Listening to the sudden roar, Ethan sighed.

Although the memories of his previous life told him that if MOS 6502 can live until 2023, the patent issue will definitely be solved, but how to solve it? What method will be used to solve it? Then he really doesn't know anything about it.

He can indeed rely on the memory of his previous life to purchase the authorization of 6502, but no one can guarantee whether the butterfly wings he lifted can make MOS 6502 legend again.

What if MOS 6502 cannot resolve the patent dispute with him with his intervention?

Isn’t he rushing to buy an authorization like pulling his pants and letting others pull his shit in his crotch?

Isn't this a bit stupid?

‘Damn it!’

‘Why is my time travel different from others!’

‘Is it so difficult to get me to get some money?’

Note: ① The previous generation of 6502's 6501 was really copied, and this was confirmed by Motorola. Motorola also did a terrible operation here. Didn't 6501 infringement and fix the 6800 bug? I won the lawsuit.

After that, Motorola directly repaired the 6800 against the 6501.② In fact, if MOS does not tell Motorola to make 6501 and do not display 6501, there is actually no need to lose money, but these engineers do it. I don’t know why.

③6502 does have copyright issues. Synertek, which has the production rights, has confirmed this issue. When they signed a contract with MOS, there was a clause that Motorola would stop producing 6502 after suing for rights protection.
Chapter completed!