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> A lot of ISA design is about avoiding patents and other traps. Aren't patents limited to 20 years? Can't you just ignore all inventions that are < 20 years o
by taffer 6y ago
> A lot of ISA design is about avoiding patents and other traps.
Aren't patents limited to 20 years? Can't you just ignore all inventions that are < 20 years old to be safe from patents? Then you'd still be 10 years ahead of POWER.
- Someone 6y agoI think anybody wanting to implement POWER nowadays means the PowerPC ISA, as implemented in modern POWER CPUs, not the original POWER ISA from 1990.
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- CameronNemo 6y agoPower ISA had updates in 2007, 2009, 2013, 2015, and 2020. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_ISA#Specifications https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_ISA#Specifications