Electron wrote:
> But if a designer makes a CPU that is neither mnemonics compatible nor
> binary compatible, but that uses the same ideas (e.g. all opcodes are
> conditional, barrel shifter into the data processing instructions, etc..)
> can this infringe patents too?
>
> I'm afraid I already guess the answer.. :/
>  =20

Of course.
Easily.

Infact it could be argued it's only valid to copyright mnemonics and=20
that binary code shouldn't be copyright or patentable. How you execute=20
it is the clever bit.


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