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From: halff@utah-cs.UUCP (Henry M. Halff)
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Subject: Re: DRI agrees to change GEM ; why??
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Date: Thu, 10-Oct-85 08:36:01 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 10 08:36:01 1985
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>From rb@ccivax.UUCP (rex ballard) Wed Oct  9 16:27:57 1985
>Newsgroups: net.micro.pc,net.micro.atari,net.micro.mac
>Subject: Re: DRI agrees to change GEM ; why??
>Organization: CCI Telephony Systems Group,  Rochester NY
>
>> In article <1196@vax1.fluke.UUCP> pwv@fluke.UUCP (Pat Vilbrandt) writes:
>> >This is the announcement by Digital Research, Inc. as it appeared on the 
>> >Compuserve GEM SIG on Oct. 1.  Seems as though DRI could use some better
>> >lawers.  (Maybe Xerox should sue Apple...  :-)
>> 
>> Anyone who's seen a Xerox (anyone with a dandelion want to comment?) will
>> be the first to admit similarities, but Apple went very strongly out in
>> their own direction. The Mac isn't a copy of Xerox' work, it is just
>> influenced by it. From what the releases say, that isn't as true of the Mac
>> and GEM (I haven't seen GEM yet, so I won't comment on it).
>> -- 
>> :From under the bar at Callahan's:   Chuq Von Rospach 
>
>
>If Von-Neuman or Turing had patented all of the algorythms used in modern
>computers, computer software development would have been shackled for
>twenty years.
>
When I was first learning about computers (around '68) I asked a teacher
why it was that CDC machines used 1's complement arithmetic.  He replied
that IBM held hefty patents on two's complement algorithms that Control
Data did not want to pay for.  I have no idea whether or not this story 
is true, but, if so, it shows that Apple isn't the only one playing the
patent game.

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Henry M. Halff                                       Halff Resources, Inc.
halff@utah-cs.ARPA                 4918 33rd Road, N., Arlington, VA 22207