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2009-09-15 , 19:58
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Originally Posted by marnanel View Post
[...] some serious thought would have to be given to copyright issues about the MOS, the DFS, and BASIC: you can't do anything without the MOS, you can't do much without BASIC, and life without the DFS is painful. But they are all still © Acorn, whoever that is these days.)
Well, we have an ARM CPU in our toys, and ARM used to mean "Acorn Risc Machine", so maybe we have an implicit license to use Acorn material

Just kidding (about the implicit license), but Acorn was behind not only the beloved Beeb but also the incredibly successful ARM CPU (almost 3 billion a year sold.. quite a lot more than Intel has managed so far).
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