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From: rpw3@amdcad.AMD.COM (Rob Warnock)
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: <20952@amdcad.AMD.COM>
Date: 29 Mar 88 11:41:38 GMT
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Reply-To: rpw3@amdcad.UUCP (Rob Warnock)
Organization: [Consultant] San Mateo, CA
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Keywords: Apple Mac HP Microsoft Windows OS/2 New Wave Frivolous Litigation

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...


Rob Warnock
Systems Architecture Consultant

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