Rebirth of America, this is my time

‘? ? ? ’

When these words appeared, Ethan Jones was completely stunned!

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

Damn it!

Then isn’t this just blatant plagiarism!

Under his questioning, Chuck Paido also told the situation faced by MOS 6502.

It turns out that after leaving Motorola, these engineers from Motorola immediately began to develop cheap chips. But how can it be so simple to develop chips?

Every morning after work, they spread out the drawings on their desks, then have a cup of coffee, a pack of cigarettes, and a blank piece of paper to read about for the day.

They were slow to put pen to paper.

It’s not that I can’t draw it.

But I don’t know how to draw.

Because they previously developed the Motorola 6800!

When your invention has been tested by the market and it is determined that there are no problems, if you ask them to think differently and try it again, wouldn't that be killing them?

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

And what is the innovation of this CPU?

It solves some bugs of Motorola 6800...

If you take apart a computer with a Motorola 6800, peel off the 6800 and then weld the MOS 6501 on, you will find that the machine can still run normally. Not only that, the performance of the 6501 is even better than the 6800!

When this fact emerged, people like Chuck Paido were stunned!

Because they know that this is plagiarism.

It's just me copying myself.

Not knowing how to deal with this kind of thing, they sent a letter to Motorola and informed Motorola of the situation of MOS 6501.

Then--

Motorola sued MOS.

Motorola stated that MOS had infringed its patent rights and required MOS to stop the infringement and compensate for losses.

Since MOS was only a small company founded in 1969, in order to ensure the normal operation of their company, they could only kneel down and reach an out-of-court settlement with Motorola.

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

Since this matter was proactively informed by MOS, and most of MOS's engineers came from Motorola, Motorola didn't bother to take care of it after apologizing for compensation.

Chuck Paido and others who were unwilling to give up their dreams re-developed a chip, MOS 6502.

"So...is your MOS 6502 infringing or not?"

Chuck Paido's description made Ethan Jones feel a little toothache.

He never imagined that the reason why MOS's products are so cheap is because the research and development costs are very low?

What the hell is this special code!

After hearing Ethan Jones's question, Chuck Paido on the other end of the phone smiled helplessly: "Ethan, I can only tell you this, MOS 6502 and Motorola 6800 are not compatible. At the same time, MOS 6502 uses an updated manufacturing process."

'have to! ’

Ethan understood.

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

And that's something Chuck Perdor may never be able to solve.

After all, people’s thinking is structured.

When a person firmly believes that their direction is correct, only hitting the south wall can make them turn back.

And when he thought about the unclear relationship between 6502 and Motorola, Ethan felt a little uncomfortable.

When there are legal issues with Jinshan in front of you...

So what was the flashy exterior he saw?

Is it the real gold at your fingertips, or the smelly shit?

Ethan didn't know.

But he knew that before buying the license, he had to ask clearly about the key points.

"So, Mr. Paido, have you consulted a lawyer?"

This question made Chuck Paido 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 found guilty of infringement."

"Is there a way to solve?"

"We're working on it."

"Then I want to know, since you don't have a patent, how dare you sell your product? And as far as I know, you will participate in the San Francisco Electronics Show in September?"

"Uh... Since you trust us so much, we will tell you directly. It is just a temporary plan. If there is really a problem, we don't have to go. As for the issue of selling... Let me tell you this, if someone buys it, we will If no one buys it, we won’t produce it. After doing this, when Motorola does sue us, we can minimize the loss. At the same time, if we can sell a large number of chips at once, we will be doing something for the market. Whatever you can do."

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

After leaning against the table and thinking carefully for a while, Ethan started to think something was wrong.

MOS 6502 is actually an infringing product?

So how did it become such a hit in its previous life?

Reached settlement with Motorola?

Or found a solution?

Ethan couldn't find any memory related to it.

At the same time, he also doubted whether Chuck Paido was deceiving him.

Just because they don't want to authorize it, so they claim to have legal problems?

And when he held this idea and checked with the little fat man who came back in the evening, the little fat man's first reaction was also surprised, and his second reaction was to ask someone for Ethan.

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

"There's nothing wrong with what Chuck and the others said."

"Motorola did sue them before and asked them to compensate one million, and finally reached a settlement and paid two hundred thousand in compensation."

"It seems I was wrong. This matter is indeed more troublesome."

Woz's words gave Ethan a headache.

The person who had more headaches than him was actually Steve Jobs.

After Woz finished his dinner and got into the garage, he also approached Ethan and asked nervously: "Will this legal issue have an impact on the sales of computers?"

Ethan spread his hands and said: "Normal use will definitely not have any impact, but it's hard to say for other things."

"Let me make an analogy. You buy a batch of 6502 now and then put them in computers for sale. Motorola cannot stop this kind of thing. Even in the process, Motorola sued MOS, won the lawsuit and stopped 6502 production, these chips that have already flowed into the market will not be recovered."

"but……"

"What happens when 6502 is used up?"

"What chip should you use?"

"There are simply no such cheap alternatives on the market."

"Oh! Sxxt!" This fact made Steve Jobs curse.

He flew up angrily and kicked the chair.

Immediately afterwards, there was a burst of clanging noises.

The orange wooden chairs collided with the old floor, emitting bursts of painful wails.

Then...

Steve Jobs left home and rode his motorcycle to nowhere.

Listening to the sudden roar, Ethan sighed.

Although the memory of his previous life told him that MOS 6502 can live until 2023, the patent issue can definitely be solved, but how? In what way? Then he really doesn't know anything.

He can indeed purchase the license for 6502 based on the memory of his previous life, but no one can guarantee whether the butterfly wings he lifts can make MOS 6502 legendary again.

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

So by rushing to buy the license, isn't it equivalent to ripping open his pants and letting others poop in his crotch?

This seems a bit crazy no matter how you look at it, right?

‘Fuck! ’

‘Why is my time travel different from others! ’

‘Is it so difficult for me to pick up some money? ’

Note: ① The 6501, the previous generation product of 6502, is really a copycat. This was confirmed by Motorola. And Motorola also did something cool here. Isn’t 6501 an infringement and has fixed the BUG of 6800? After winning the lawsuit, Motorola went directly to 6501 to repair the 6800. ②In fact, if MOS did not tell Motorola that it had made 6501 and did not display 6501, it would not have to lose money, but these engineers did it. do not know why. ③6502 does have copyright issues. Synertek, which owns the production rights, has confirmed this issue. When they signed the contract with MOS, there was a clause in it that they would stop producing 6502 if Motorola sued for rights protection.