5 Jan
2006
5 Jan
'06
1:16 a.m.
Technical -- Reverse Engineering.
Layman -- Piracy.
Significant difference- in reverse engineering you copy what something does, in piracy
you copy what it is.
5 Jan
5 Jan
1:58 a.m.
compoobah at valleyimplants.com wrote:
>Technical -- Reverse Engineering.
> > Layman -- Piracy.
>
> Significant difference- in reverse engineering you copy what something does, in
piracy you copy what it is.
>
>
But I can't think of a simple word other that.With reverse enginering
you copy the design if not the hardware.
If you had the hardware access, why would you need to findout what it
does and how to do it yourself?
http://www.village.org/pdp11/faq.pages/Soviet11s.html Dec Clone's for
example.
4 a.m.
But I can't think of a simple word other that.
With reverse
enginering you copy the design if not the hardware.
No. With reverse engineering you *understand* the design. Whether or
not you build a copy of it is irrelevant (to the reverse engineering
aspect, at least).
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1:46 p.m.
der Mouse wrote:
No. With reverse engineering you *understand* the
design. Whether or
not you build a copy of it is irrelevant (to the reverse engineering
aspect, at least).
I get that by reading the docs, the schematic and using the machine.
PS. I'll stick to schematics and docs no larger than a page for now,
since I don't feel
like doing a lot of thinking today.
2:07 p.m.
No. With
reverse engineering you *understand* the design.
I get that by reading the docs,
the schematic and using the machine. from the device.
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5:38 p.m.
der Mouse wrote:
That rather implies the schamtic is available. As we all, alas, know,
that's sometimes not the case. In which case some of us are mad enough to
sit down with the machine, a multimeter, and a pile of data books, and
produce a schematic.
-tony
No. With reverse engineering you *understand* the
design. Whether or
not you build a copy of it is irrelevant (to the reverse engineering
aspect, at least).
I get that by reading the docs, the schematic and using the machine.
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