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From: rhialto@cs.kun.nl (Olaf'Rhialto'Seibert)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: AT&T owns X-windows ??  (was Re: Software Patents)
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Date: 12 Mar 91 17:23:26 GMT
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In article <1991Mar6.164559.12497@midway.uchicago.edu> jcav@ellis.uchicago.edu (john  cavallino) writes:
|In article <46531@nigel.ee.udel.edu> new@ee.udel.edu (Darren New) writes:
|>Well, the Amiga graphics library does exactly what you describe (if asked). 
|>It was available commercially in 1985.  What's the application date on the
|>AT&T patent?
|
|Isn't the Amiga Layers library quite explicitly an implementation of the
|patented AT&T code, as described in Pike's paper(s)?

And was a certain Rob Pike not an employee of Commodore-Amiga?
(the same Pike, or just a coincidence?)

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Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert                               rhialto@cs.kun.nl
How can you be so stupid if you're identical to me? -Robert Silverberg