Re: CISC to RISC translator?

warrens@microsoft.com (Warren Stevens)
Wed, 24 Aug 1994 00:10:44 GMT

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From: warrens@microsoft.com (Warren Stevens)
Keywords: architecture, translator, comment
Organization: Microsoft Corp.
References: 94-08-099
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 1994 00:10:44 GMT

What you say is quite true -- precompiling CISC code to RISC is very
efficient (why do it more than once?). From what I understand, however,
by doing so the company that writes the translater opens itself to a whole
host of legal issues: copyright infringement, patent violations, etc. etc.


My source for this information was a recent Byte article where they
dissected the PowerMac and looked at it's hardware and emulation
technology.


Warren
My opinions are my own. I do not in any way speak for Microsoft.
[Although it's certainly possible to argue the legality of object
code translation under various scenarios, this isn't the place to do it.
Legal arguments belong in misc.legal.*, please. -John]
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