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From: phils@tekigm2.TEK.COM (Philip E Staub)
Newsgroups: misc.legal,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.apple,comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.hp,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Apple Challenges HP New Wave, MS-Windows, Potentially OS/2 PM
Message-ID: <2706@tekigm2.TEK.COM>
Date: 22 Mar 88 22:17:29 GMT
References: <5480@well.UUCP> <5492@well.UUCP> <535@nunki.usc.edu>
Reply-To: phils@tekigm2.UUCP (Philip E Staub)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR.
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Keywords: Apple Mac HP Microsoft Windows OS/2 New Wave Frivolous Litigation

In article <535@nunki.usc.edu> rjung@sal6.usc.edu (Robert Jung) writes:
> [ deleted stuff about apple's suit against microsoft]
>
>P.S. Gosh, if I had thought of this sooner, I could have copyrighted the use
>of a KEYBOARD, and put hundreds of people out of work waaay back in the
>beginning of computer-history...
>______________________________________________________________________________
>Bitnet: rjung@castor.usc.edu              "Who needs an Amiga?"    = == =    
>                                                                   = == =    
>                  Power WithOUT the Price                          = == =    
>                                                               ===== == =====
>   Just because it's 8-bits doesn't make it obsolete.          ====  ==  ==== 

Don't laugh. As I recall, either RCA or GE has a patent on the use of CRTs
for display of alpahnumeric characters generated as a scanned dot matrix.
Sound familiar? Like in (virtually) every terminal and computer in
existence.

8-<

Phil

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