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To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (115046)	10/27/2000 9:15:21 PM
From: Saturn V	Respond to of 186894

Ref < Patenting of New Instruction functions > We will see if this new patenting strategy keeps cloners like AMD, Via etc from copying the new instruction features on the IA-64 and IA-32. If successful this will prevent the software from being compatible between an Intel machine, and the cloned machine. For the IA-32, this could backfire if software developers decline to incorporate the new instructions. Intel itself is developing new `infrastucture software' like new compilers and development tools,and libraries. These could be Trojan Horses, and the new instructions could creep in to common usage via Intel's tools.