Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!oliveb!epimass!jbuck From: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: IBM RISC patents Message-ID: <2252@epimass.EPI.COM> Date: 29 Jun 88 22:42:13 GMT References: <29284@pyramid.pyramid.com> Reply-To: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck) Organization: Entropic Processing, Inc., Cupertino, CA Lines: 11 In article <29284@pyramid.pyramid.com> khearn@pyrglass.UUCP (Keith Hearn) writes: >Are the rumors true that IBM holds patents on the Von Neumann machine? :-) Well, US patents are only good for 17 years, so anything anyone invented before 1971 is fair game. So we probably can keep using binary numbers and packed decimal. :-) -- - Joe Buck {uunet,ucbvax,pyramid,}!epimass.epi.com!jbuck jbuck@epimass.epi.com Old Arpa mailers: jbuck%epimass.epi.com@uunet.uu.net If you leave your fate in the hands of the gods, don't be surprised if they have a few grins at your expense. - Tom Robbins