[geeks] WANTED: chip level design software for UNIX/Linux

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Thu, 10 May 2007 @ 09:19 -0400, Sridhar Ayengar said:

> Bill Bradford wrote:
> > On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 10:45:43AM +0300, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
> >> It was a well known fact. He filed an invention disclosure with Bell Labs
> >> describing it. Bell rejected his offer and six months later announced
> >> their invention. He sued, they lost.
> > 
> > I can find nothing stating this on Wikipedia or Google.
> 
> Again, this sounds to me a lot like the story of Gordon Gould.
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Gould

Forrest Mims did a lot of work on fiber optic sensors and circuits and
wrote about fiber optics from the 60s onward.

It's very possible he did invent something in that area, particularly
if he came up with a really good sensor that the industry needed. Maybe
that was the bone of contention.

Interesting note: he was one of the partners who founded MITS, but in
1970 he sold his share of the company for $100, just a few years before
Roberts brought out the Altair. However, he still wrote the manual for
it in 1975.


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