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From: berggren@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Eric Berggren)
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Subject: Re: AT&T owns X-windows ?? (was Re: Software Pat
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Date: 11 Mar 91 18:12:44 GMT
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pmoore@hemel.bull.co.uk (Paul Moore) writes:

>Talking of basic patents (Kildall on OS , or V Neumann on backing store) I
>read that Quarterdeck hold the patent for multiprocessing windows environments
>- they havent done anything yet but what happens when Windows 3/32/4 kills
>DesqView (as it surely will).

  What do you/they mean by "multiprocessing window environments"? Sounds
kinda like X-Windows. I know they have a patent and some "internal" magic,
but I can't recall exactly what...

-e.b.

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