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Authored by: jesse on Monday, June 11 2012 @ 11:25 AM EDT |
It is an idealized (meaning perfect) mathematical model of hardware.
As such, it can not suffer from overheating.
It can not suffer from radiation.
It can not suffer from power failures.
Even "turning off a VM" can not emulate all of the side effects that
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Authored by: Ian Al on Monday, June 11 2012 @ 11:30 AM EDT |
APIs and ABIs don't describe environments, they describe concepts in the
programmers head that explain how to write software code. It is a programming
visualisation tool and nothing more. Human visualisation in computing is
abstract thoughts and ideas. It can be very creative, but it is not patentable
subject matter according to the law.
Once you have loaded all the required stored program to create the VM (operating
system, BIOS, VM implementation code, hardware drivers etc.), all you have is
hardware processor instructions and program data in memory.
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Ian Al
Software Patents: It's the disclosed functions in the patent, stupid![ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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