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by rjsw 4289 days ago
I have been told that TI have given formal permission to redistribute their code, I will chase up the person who got hold of it to get it properly labelled.

The LMI stuff is more interesting to me as it is complete, I'm still a fair bit of work away from being able to build it though. I have spoken with RG about it but we didn't discuss the licence.
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sedachv 4289 days ago
Texas Instruments sold their computer systems division at the start of the 1990s. I've read that that sale did not include the Explorer copyrights.

At the start of 2011 I got in touch with Robby Holland, then the head of TI's patent licensing division. Holland could not find anything about the computer systems division, or anything about the sale, or whether they owned the rights anymore. They did not have any of the project materials on hand. Holland said he would have someone look into the archives. When I tried to get in touch with him a few months later Holland was no longer with Texas Instruments.

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lispm 4288 days ago
Texas Instruments closed their Lisp Machine activities in 1990. Nobody picked that up.
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lispm 4289 days ago
There is an extremely large amount of TI Explorer code with lots of later stuff written by TI:

https://archive.org/details/ti-explorer

No usable license so far.

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rjsw 4289 days ago
Yes, that is the stuff that I have been told has been released by TI. I will try to get a proper licence added to it.

The microcode sources are missing and one of the files for NFS is truncated.

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