Re: Who owns computer languages?

Gregory Bond <gnb@itga.com.au>
11 Nov 1997 13:36:29 -0500

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From: Gregory Bond <gnb@itga.com.au>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 11 Nov 1997 13:36:29 -0500
Organization: ITG Australia Ltd. Melbourne, Australia
References: 97-11-043
Keywords: legal, history

Todd Evans <evans@connectnet.com> writes:


      Recently I was reading a thread regarding the "ownership" of computer
      languages.


Back in the late Pre-Cambrian this was a constant source of
frustration to those of us programming 8080/Z-80 code. Intel had
copyrighted the assembler mnemonics for the 8080 and threatened Zilog
with all sorts of dire concequences should they use them in the
literature for the (upward-compatible) Z-80. So Zilog had a whole new
set of mnemonics for _the exact same opcodes_, and what is worse the
Intel
MOV src, dst
became the Zilog
LD dst, src


Greg
[hoping he remembers this right!]
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