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ISA is like API. I don't think you can copyright that, so it would make sense if they did it this way.
by varispeed 5y ago
ISA is like API. I don't think you can copyright that, so it would make sense if they did it this way.
- mhh__ 5y agoYes you can. I don't think you can patent trivial details of "API" but you can absolutely patent a given function of an ISA. You probably shouldn't be able to (Alpha vs. MIPS, x86 etc.) but currently you can.