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From: dyer@atari.UUCP (Landon Dyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: Silly IBM law suit
Message-ID: <835@atari.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 9-Sep-87 23:35:50 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep  9 23:35:50 1987
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in article <1600@frog.UUCP>, john@frog.UUCP (John Woods, Software) says:
> 
> When IBM trademarked PL/1, the also trademarked PL/2, PL/3, PL/4, ... through
> I don't know how many.
> 

Some genius lawyer in the "old" Atari wanted to copyright all possible
eight-by-eight monochrome bitmaps.

The apocryphal part to this tale is that he moved to Tibet, where he
still works in a cave high in the Himalayas.  When he finishes all the
drawings, the universe will end....

-- 
-Landon Dyer, Atari Corporation	       {sun,amdcad,lll-lcc,imagen}!atari!dyer
The views expressed here do not necessarily reflect those
of Atari or the AI software that has taken over my brain.
Yow! I am waiting for my warranty-expired interrupt!		     FREE P1!