Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!news.cs.indiana.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!cs326ag From: cs326ag@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Loren J. Rittle) Subject: Re: NeXT/Amiga Flamage: Get a life. Message-ID: <1991Apr9.212636.8200@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1991 21:26:36 GMT Lines: 23 In article <1991Apr9.125149.22939@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >In article <1991Apr7.172928.18737@maths.tcd.ie> mike@maths.tcd.ie (MIKE ROGERS) writes: >> Perhaps they've one eye out for Apple's outrageous claim (amongst >> others) vs. MS and HP to *own* the concept of off-screen windows. > >They'll have to take that up with MIT, AT&T, Xerox, et al. I'm more concerned >with the AT&T backing-store patent, 'cos that's where intuition's design >came from. Peter, I'm starting to think that Commodore must have already licensed said technology. Why? Because AT&T is going after X, but there are, most likely, more machines running intuition... :-) >-- >Peter da Silva. `-_-' >. Loren J. Rittle -- ``The Amiga continues to amaze me--if I had not been told that this video was created using the Amiga and Toaster, I would not have believed it. Even Allen said, `I think I know how he did most of the effects.' '' - Jim Lange Loren J. Rittle l-rittle@uiuc.edu