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Technology Stocks : All About Sun Microsystems
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To: StockMan who wrote (3909)9/12/1997 11:21:00 PM
From: Charles Tutt   of 64865
 
Au contraire. Some instruction sets have been covered by standards (e.g. SPARC (IEEE 1754), and as I recall some DOD MIL spec processors), and there are standards defining the functional characteristics of OS's (e.g. Posix, see austin.ibm.com -- I think even Microsoft's Windows NT complies in some fashion with Posix so that it can be bid on government work).

Although the x86 instruction set and the Windows API are, for the most part, published (so people can use them), that doesn't make them open. You didn't answer my question: With whom (what standards body) did Intel consult before adding the MMX instructions? And with whom does Microsoft consult before changing the Windows API?

And hasn't Intel patented the Pentium II "Slot One?" How open is that?

JMHO.
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