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From: crandell@ut-sally.UUCP (Jim Crandell)
Newsgroups: net.music.synth,net.games.video
Subject: Re: Marble Madness & FM Music Synthesis
Message-ID: <2882@ut-sally.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 13-Sep-85 15:01:14 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 13 15:01:14 1985
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Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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In article <267@weitek.UUCP> mahar@weitek.UUCP (mahar) writes:
>In article <2614@ihnss.UUCP>, knudsen@ihnss.UUCP writes:
>>     FM chip should be pretty easy to build.
>Your right. FM chips are not that hard to build. However, Yamaha
>has the basic patent on FM sound generation. Atari's lawyers
>didn't want to fight it so they just bought the chips from Yamaha.

Uh -- wait a minute.  Exar was making an FM-able waveform generator
chip (XR206, I think) fifteen years ago.  Aren't you leaving out a
significant part of the story?
-- 

    Jim Crandell, C. S. Dept., The University of Texas at Austin
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