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Did AMD have to get permission from Intel to implement the i386 instruction set? Yup, and Intel needed permission from AMD to implement the x86_64 instruction
by otterlicious 8y ago
Did AMD have to get permission from Intel to implement the i386 instruction set?
Yup, and Intel needed permission from AMD to implement the x86_64 instruction set.
https://www.cnet.com/news/intel-and-amd-a-long-history-in-court/ https://www.cnet.com/news/intel-and-amd-a-long-history-in-co...
- jolmg 8y agoWhat about emulators? Did bochs and qemu need to get permission? I'm not really understanding the legal basis here. Did these companies get patents for the instruction sets? Since instruction sets are really like APIs, can people get patents for APIs?