[cctalk] Re: Intel 4004

The website makes it clear he's talking about a chipset: control chip, multiplier, divider, and some other stuff. Sounds a bit like a 2901/2910 combination. As for the term, was that a copyright or trademark dispute? That doesn't have any connection to who was first actually to create something. Consider for example the guy (a failed political candidate, of all things) in MA who claims to have invented Email. His argument for this is that the US Copyright Office accepted the registration of a publication, the source code of that program, and that the title of the work was "email". That doesn't say anything about whether others did it before; it only says that he created something with that name and recorded that fact at that time. That one, actually, was even feebler than a trademark or a domain name registration, because domain names are unique and while trademarks need not be, they are at least supposed to be unique within a particular commercial category. paul