Re: Re: Peter still in misery (was: Jan doesn't want Peter to know (was: Peter wants

Interesting that you mentioned reverse engineering... I am not sure what the 
current status is of this in the US but I do remember watching a program a few 
years back about how competitor chips for Intel were copied/designed. They had 
one group analyze the new Intel chip and create a document of the 
specifications of the chip (something along the lines of input A gives output 
A1 in over simplified terms). Then this document is passed on to another group 
that designed their version of the chip based only on this document and their 
existing knowledge. I got the impression, from the program, that this practice 
was legal as long as the only contact between the two groups was the design 
document. I'll have to go back and check the other link about Hitachi, but I 
believed that it implied that ths practice was legal also, where they went 
wrong was obtaining IBM internal only design documents rather than waiting for 
the new IBM model to become available for purchase.

If someone knows how to track this program down, it was some special on the 
history of computers and I believe I saw it on The Learning Channel or the 
Discovery Channel.
Pat Talley

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