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Re: Re: Results of "downloading compressed program images" request

> 
> There may be little need for IP legal protection because of the high cost
> of stealing/reproducing the hardware but there are cases where the payoff
> has been high enough to justify it.  All of us who are old enough will
> remember tales that the USSR had cloned some old IBM mainframes down to
> the color of the wires.  I also recall that they actually duplicated an
> early microprocessor like the 8080.

It went much further than that. By the time I left FSU (1989) clone PDP-11
chipsets (including single chip implementations of low end models) and 64Kbit
memory were commonality. 

> --joel

Thanks,

Aleksey