In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 06/07/2007 at 12:37 PM, "McKown, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Some instructions on the zSeries are patent protected. That means >that writing any code or making any hardware which has an identical >effect, regardless of how it is done, can only be legally done if the >person/company doing the emulation has a patent license. Or if they succeed in invalidating the patent. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html