Re: Re: News - Commercial Version of Hercules - Turbo Hercules

VM and various other emulators were doing that in the 1960s.

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 12:14 PM, floyds_void <[email protected]> wrote:
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> --- In [email protected], "kerravon86" <kerravon86@...> wrote:
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>> Note how they even went to the effort to say:
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>> "Moreover, an environment may include an emulator (e.g., software or other emulation mechanisms), in which a particular architecture or subset thereof is emulated."
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>> In other words, they are indeed attempting to
>> prevent anyone else from using the published
>> language.
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>> Completely ruling out any competition.
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> Oh, wow, nice catch. I didn't get that far, my eyes kind of glaze over reading these things.  Here is claim 8:
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> "8. The method according to claim 1, wherein the machine instruction is an instruction of a first computer architecture wherein the machine instruction is fetched and executed by a central processing unit of an alternate computer architecture, the method comprising: interpreting the machine instruction to identify a predetermined software subroutine for emulating the operation of the machine instruction, the predetermined software subroutine comprising a plurality of instructions; and executing the predetermined software subroutine to perform the method for executing the machine instruction."
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> They shouldn't be able to patent this since we were doing exactly this years before the filing, should they?
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> Greg
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VM and various other emulators were doing that in the 1960s.
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