[fpc-devel] Re: System 370: Episode 3. Addressing and it's limits Part One!

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

steve smithers wrote:
>> Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:29:01 +0000
>>
>> Steve, are you OK if I archive this into the Wiki so it's easily 
>> accessible in the future?
> 
> I have no issue with that at all.
> 
>> Does the list owner (Jonas?) have any complaints about this on account 
>> of copyright etc.?
> 
> If there any copyright issues on my behalf, I am happy to grant free use
> to anyone.

Purely in case anybody wants to complain that it shouldn't be moved 
between different servers etc.

>> Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote on 07 Feb 2012 11:29:07 +0000
>>
>>                               but my understanding is that there is a 
>> number of older IBM operating systems which are now considered to be 
>> /res/ /nullius/, but these are all limited to 24-bit addressing.
> 
> What does /res/ /nullius/ mean, I skipped Latin!

Nobody's property [double-checks using Wp]. I think that in the case of 
the IBM operating systems it's a fairer description than (the 
frequently-applied) public domain, since IBM never explicitly donated 
them to the public, their creation was not funded by the public purse, 
and their ownership status if heavily modified is unclear.

-- 
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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