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From: fotland@hpihoah.HP.COM (Dave Fotland)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Split I and D caches and IBM lawyers
Message-ID: <4420004@hpihoah.HP.COM>
Date: 4 Aug 88 22:33:00 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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IBM's RISC patents are probably based on the 801 work that happened in the
late 70's, way before the Oct 86 final report.  In the US it is the date of
invention that has priority in patents, not the date of filing.  Since IBM
disclosed some of this stuff back in the early 80's I'm sure they filed
back then also (since you only have a year from the date of disclosure in
US).