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From: macbeth@artecon.UUCP (Beckwith)
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: <872@artecon.UUCP>
Date: 29 Mar 88 20:39:31 GMT
References: <5480@well.UUCP> <5492@well.UUCP> <535@nunki.usc.edu> <2706@tekigm2.TEK.COM> <20952@amdcad.AMD.COM>
Reply-To: macbeth@artecon.UUCP (David Macy-Beckwith)
Organization: artecon
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Keywords: Apple Mac HP Microsoft Windows OS/2 New Wave Frivolous Litigation

In article <20952@amdcad.AMD.COM> rpw3@amdcad.UUCP (Rob Warnock) writes:
<In article <2706@tekigm2.TEK.COM> phils@tekigm2.UUCP (Philip E Staub) writes:
<>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.
<
<This is TRUE! ...as we learned at Fortune Systems a few years ago. And by
<the way, it's RCA, and the patent covers virtually any scanned dot matrix.
<If you make video displays, eventually RCA comes a'knocking...

And boy, that sure put the kibosh on creativity and development in the video
display arena, didn't it?

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+ David Macy-Beckwith  Artecon, Inc. {sdcsvax,hplabs}!hp-sdd!artecon!macbeth  +
| The Company has enough on its plate    ||   "I didn't come here to argue!"  |
+ without supporting the crazed postings ||   "Yes, you did!"                 +
| of its newsaholic minions.             ||   "No, I didn't!"                 |