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From: raveling@venera.isi.edu (Paul Raveling)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Quarterdeck patent: ado about nothing
Message-ID: <8477@venera.isi.edu>
Date: 24 May 89 16:10:53 GMT
References: <8905241219.AA00789@expire.lcs.mit.edu>
Reply-To: raveling@venera.isi.edu (Paul Raveling)
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In article <8905241219.AA00789@expire.lcs.mit.edu> rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU writes:

>	[About Quarterdeck's "Windows" Patent application,
>	 details omitted]

	The description sounds remarkably similar to the technique
	we used in 1968 at UCLA to support the "STAT" function.
	This was a system operations interface on the URSA "console system"
	at UCLA, used mainly on the 360/91.

	At the top level of description the only apparent difference
	is that STAT didn't handle overlapping windows -- it only did
	some minimal tiling.  Other than that, everything sounds like
	ideas that are hardly novel.  If UCLA still has listings or
	code it's possible to document that they're 2 decades old.


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Paul Raveling
Raveling@isi.edu