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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,gnu.misc.discuss,in.xpert
Subject: Re: Backing store patent, is it limited?
Message-ID: <3846:Mar1803:50:4091@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Date: 18 Mar 91 03:50:40 GMT
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In article <5217@cui.unige.ch> afzal@cui.unige.ch (Afzal Ballim) writes:
> >A graphic terminal is disclosed using bitmaps to represent plural
  [ ... ]
> So, does this only cover windows of depth 1? (I.e., 1 bit per pixel.)

Only if you can convince a court that an 8-bit map is not equivalent to
8 bitmaps. Somehow I doubt it.

---Dan