clean-room method

On Fri, 25 Oct 2002 08:31:53 -0500, Patrick Talley wrote:

>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. 

What you have described here is also known as the socalled "clean-room" method. 
It
was also used by Phoenix when they cloned/reverse-engineered the IBM PC BIOS. 


regards,
Per




regards,
Per Jessen, Zurich
http://www.enidan.com - home of the J1 serial console.

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.



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