Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!apple!baum
From: baum@Apple.COM (Allen J. Baum)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Split I and D caches and IBM lawyers
Message-ID: <15156@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 4 Aug 88 18:13:58 GMT
References: <62370@sun.uucp> <11717@steinmetz.ge.com>
Reply-To: baum@apple.UUCP (Allen Baum)
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.
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>In article <11717@steinmetz.ge.com> oconnor%sungod@steinmetz.UUCP writes:
>I don't know when IBM filed their patent application, but
>as of October 1968, the following were published "prior art"
>( We at GE published them as a goverment contract final report )

I will blithely assume that 1968 is a typo for 1986....

>"prior art" is almost impossible to be current on, in a field moving
>as fast as computer architecture. The date of filing of the IBM
>patents is very important. When were they filed ?

The patent was filed in May,1982. The actual work was done prior to that,
of course, so that any prior art would have to prove that the idea came
up before it was documented in the lab notebooks at IBM, which was prior
to May, 1982.

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