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From: boomer@athena.mit.edu (Don Alvarez)
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Subject: Re: Soderblom and token ring
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Date: 15 May 89 14:07:47 GMT
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In article <8124@thorin.cs.unc.edu> brock@brock.cs.unc.edu (J. Dean Brock) writes:

>[article by Olof Soderblom] states that the token ring was conceived in 1967
>and the first token ring [...] came operational in the early 1970's.

Sounds to me like the 17 year life-time for patents is about to make this
a non-problem.  If "early 1970's" = 1972, then 1972+17 = 1989.

					-Don Alvarez
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