> On Nov 21, 2023, at 6:14 PM, Will Cooke via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org>
> wrote:
>
> More information is here:
> https://firstmicroprocessor.com/?doing_wp_cron=1700608229.8666059970855712890625
>
> I think that is the designers (Rod Holt?) website. Apparently he won a legal
> battle to use the term "first microprocessor" for whatever that is worth.
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
