[Coco] Re: [Color Computer] History Bytes

[jdaggett at gate.net]

Denis

I seriously doubt that the DMCA forbids "reverse" engineering. That 
has been a main staple of the electronics industry for decades. It is 
human nature to take something apart and find out how it works. 
Besides, how the Coco does some of its basic functions today can 
be easily done in hardware and off load the MC6809/HD6309 from 
the burden of the software overhead. 

Even if the DMCA does disallow "reverse" engineering, that would 
be hard to prove that one used that technique in deriving one's own 
basic interpreter.

DECB is a tokenized basic interpreter and there are not too many 
avenues in which to implement such a basic interpreter. 

There is sufficient means to significantly alter the Basic Interpreter 
code and add preipheral processing that the there would be no 
violation in copyrights. 

james

On 10 Jan 2005 at 15:50, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote:

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> The latest wrench of the monkeys is provided by the combination of
> Digital Millennium Copyright Act and related revisions to the
> copyright law. The DMCA outlaws reverse engineering, and is
> retrospective in application. So all those "Decoded" books, for
> example, are technically illegal now.