Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763665AbXJRA3u (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Oct 2007 20:29:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1762827AbXJRA3d (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Oct 2007 20:29:33 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:38967 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1762022AbXJRA3b (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Oct 2007 20:29:31 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Bill Davidsen Subject: Re: Flynn's Original Paper about Computer Organization Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 20:38:01 -0400 Message-ID: <4716AAE9.2060001@tmr.com> References: <40378e40710151152q5d96a51r88e8f27f69836d6c@mail.gmail.com> <20071015203344.0c956f8a@the-village.bc.nu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pool-70-109-100-63.alb.east.verizon.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061105 SeaMonkey/1.0.6 In-Reply-To: <20071015203344.0c956f8a@the-village.bc.nu> Cc: linux-smp@vger.kernel.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1377 Lines: 29 Alan Cox wrote: > On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:52:50 +0200 > "Mohamed Bamakhrama" wrote: > >> Hi all, >> I am looking for Michael Flynn original paper about computer >> organization in which Flynn devised the so-called "Flynn Taxonomy". I >> tried Google, IEEE Xplore, ACM, Yahoo but in vain. I would be very >> grateful if someone can post a scanned version of the manuscript. > > You may find the following useful > > http://en.wikipedia.org/Wiki/Copyright > > Please don't ask on this list for people to abuse copyright law. > His request is off-topic, and "post" would be a violation, but he is allowed a personal copy under "fair use" doctrine unless the law has changed recently. US copyright is unique, things on which copyright has expired were re-protected when the law changed, making copying which was legal when done a crime after the fact. I'm not sure British law using 400 year old precedents is better, just more predictable. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/