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From: paul@taniwha.UUCP (Paul Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Patents on Microchannel
Message-ID: <396@taniwha.UUCP>
Date: 15 Aug 89 15:48:12 GMT
References: <20558@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: paul@taniwha.UUCP (Paul Campbell)
Organization: Taniwha Systems Design, Oakland
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In article <20558@cup.portal.com> mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson) writes:
>.....
>numbers are.  They should be listed on a label somewhere on the outside
>of the machine, probably in the back.
>....
>Intel patents related to protected mode.  Can someone tell me what the
>patent numbers for the patents on the 386 are?

They should be listed on a label somewhere on the outside of the chip,
probably in the back :-)

But seriously what are the legalities of marking things with patents, you
obviously have to do it for copyright, one often sees patent numbers listed
on manufactured objects, is this just intended to discourage the competition
or to snow the consumer. Can I write 'Pat. Pending' on anything?

	Paul

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