I think that Intel has a Patent on their Slot 1 Technology (or are trying to get one). This way, other chip manufactureres would be "locked out", but the specs would still be available.


>Michael,
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>That's curious, really. I would have thought that the fact that ASUS and others are manufacturing motherboards for the Pentium II (that *is* the one with slot 1, isn't it), at least *some* specs would ahve to be "out there".
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>Not knowing anything about chip manufacturing, I can only speculate about what this might mean, but it does seem to me that it has to go a long way towards opening it up.
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>In other words, it sound more like more gossip than fact to me. We'll just have to wait and see.
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>regards,
>Jim N
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>>There was an article in todays news.com about the attempt by Intel to lock out other
>>microprocessor manufacturers by implementing there Slot 1 technology. It seems
>>that the information needed to implement this hardware is held only by Intel.
>>I was wondering what others thought of the possibility of Microsoft & Intels lock
>>on the PC market.