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From: ra_robert@gsbacd.uchicago.edu
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Subject: Re: Virtual, how many megs?
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Date: 10 Apr 89 19:44:39 GMT
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In article <10464@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>, sidlives@athena.mit.edu (Sid Vicious) writes...
> 
>     I mentioned this to a friend of mine who is knowledgable about
>things like this.  He said that if Connectix uses the PMMU (which they
>do) that they would be unable to patent their idea.  You might think
>of it as creating the toolbox.  If you can create the toolbox routines
>with no knowledge of them except for a set of specs, then they should be
>legal.  Also, it would seem stupid that the idea of virtual memory
>would be patentable.
> 




I also mentioned this to a friend of mine who is knowledgeable in such things
(and knows folks at Apple)  and he said that he's heard that Apple's been
working on this kind of stuff (VM, etc.) for _quite_ awhile, and in fact
supposedly had running prototypes a while ago; all they'd have to do is show
this prior work to be able to use it.



Robert 
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