On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 10:15:59PM +0100, Thomas Horsten wrote: > > That correct. Unfortunately emulating of these instructions in exception > > handlers would also be covered by the patents, so rewriting which would > > be rather easy in all cases I can think of is the way to go ... > > Surely not in Europe (yet), at least? The patent itself is a hardware patent and those also cover software implementations by interpretation of US, European and various national European patent offices. Otoh the patent will expire in like a year or two anyway :-) Ralf
