Re: Flynn's Original Paper about Computer Organization

Alan Cox wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:52:50 +0200
> "Mohamed Bamakhrama" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>> I am looking for Michael Flynn original paper about computer
>> organization in which Flynn devised the so-called "Flynn Taxonomy". I
>> tried Google, IEEE Xplore, ACM, Yahoo but in vain. I would be very
>> grateful if someone can post a scanned version of the manuscript.
> 
> You may find the following useful
> 
> 	http://en.wikipedia.org/Wiki/Copyright
> 
> Please don't ask on this list for people to abuse copyright law. 
> 
His request is off-topic, and "post" would be a violation, but he is 
allowed a personal copy under "fair use" doctrine unless the law has 
changed recently.

US copyright is unique, things on which copyright has expired were 
re-protected when the law changed, making copying which was legal when 
done a crime after the fact. I'm not sure British law using 400 year old 
precedents is better, just more predictable.

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