Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mit-eddie!killer!egs From: egs@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Eric Schnoebelen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Look & Feel (Was: PK vs ARC) Message-ID: <5525@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> Date: 14 Sep 88 18:29:04 GMT References: <8851@cup.portal.com> <6085@ihlpf.ATT.COM> <613@unisv.UUCP> Reply-To: u-word!egs@killer.Dallas.TX.US (Eric Schnoebelen) Organization: John W. Bridges & Associates, Inc., Lewisville, Tx. Lines: 35 In article <613@unisv.UUCP> vanpelt@unisv.UUCP (Mike Van Pelt) writes: >In article <6085@ihlpf.ATT.COM> cem@ihlpf.ATT.COM (Malloy) writes: >. Are suggesting that AT&T sue SEA for the exact same reason that >.SEA sues PKWARE? All of the "LOOK AND FEEL" stuff is really getting >.out of hand. Maybe IBM should sue everyone that makes a computer. > >No. Not IBM. Univac. The Univac 1 long pre-dated the first IBM >computer. The company was started by the guys who build the Eniac. >-- >Mike Van Pelt Unisys, Silicon Valley vanpelt@unisv.UUCP >Bring back UNIVAC! ...uunet!ubvax!unisv!vanpelt No, not Univac. The Gentlemen who brought you the Eniac, got at least some of their ideas from a gentleman name Dr. John Vincent Atanasoff, at Iowa State University ( then Iowa State College ) in 1941. Dr. Atanasoff built the first electronic digital computer at Iowa State between 1939 and 1941, with the help of graduate student Clifford Berry. See Honeywell vs. Sperry, 1973. No one holds/held patents on the original electronic digital computer. ( The University forgot to file the patent papers during WWII ) For more information about the above, there have been two book published recently, one by the ISU Press, A biography of the ABC and the subsequent lawsuits, and another by University of Michigan Press, which is more detailed about the machine itself. Since the books are at home, and I am at work, I don't have the names, sorry. ( if you hadn't guessed, I am an ISU alumni.. ) Eric Schnoebelen John W. Bridges & Associates, Inc. Lewisville, Tx. u-word!egs@killer.dallas.tx.us ( A Cyclone in Longhorn/Mustang country )