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Re:Build an 8-bit CPU from scratch by colejohnson66 on Monday December 14, 2020 @07:18PM (#25425303)
Well, Ben Eater isn’t the one making them, but Western Design Center (WDC, no relation to WD) who supposedly owns the rights to produce them. Eater is just reselling them which is allowed under the “first sale doctrine”
Re:Build an 8-bit CPU from scratch by segfaultbuserr on Monday December 14, 2020 @08:26PM (#25425908)
> Western Design Center (WDC, no relation to WD) who supposedly owns the rights to produce them.

The founder of WDC, Bill Mensch [0], was one of engineers from the original 6502 team at MOS Technology.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Mensch

Re:Build an 8-bit CPU from scratch by colejohnson66 on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @10:03AM (#25430895)
Well that certainly explains it. I never knew that