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Comment: Matters of fact vs. matters of law (Score 2, Informative) 155

by Citizen of Earth (#39884507) Attached to: Oracle Vs. Google and the Right To Use APIs

waiting for the Oracle v. Google trial jury to rule on the same question under U.S. law.

This idea seems rather broken. Juries are supposed to decide matters of fact and courts are supposed to decide matters of law. Whether an API is copyrightable is purely a matter of law, not fact. What the hell's going on here? This decision is the judge's responsibility.

Comment: Re:Everyone ignores Commodore (Score 1) 301

The megahertz wars hadn't started. the IBM PC was faster with a 4 Mhz processor

I'm not so sure about that. Although the 6510 ran at 1.03 MHz, it could access the memory bus on every clock cycle (well, when not pre-empted by the video chip). The IBM-PC 8088 ran at 4.77 MHz, but could only access the memory bus every four clock cycles. I'd say the 64 was competitive with the 8088 and probably faster at some activities.

Long computations which yield zero are probably all for naught.

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