amos@taux01.UUCP (Amos Shapir) (06/28/88)
In article <58192@sun.uucp> duckass%whitney@Sun.COM (David Chenevert) writes: > Mr. Kuehler declined to say in what areas the company might move >next. Sue anyone who uses the binary number system, of course. -- Amos Shapir (My other cpu is a NS32532) National Semiconductor (Israel) 6 Maskit st. P.O.B. 3007, Herzlia 46104, Israel Tel. +972 52 522261 amos%taux01@nsc.com 34 48 E / 32 10 N
jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup) (06/29/88)
In article <785@taux01.UUCP> amos@taux01.UUCP (Amos Shapir) writes: >In article <58192@sun.uucp> duckass%whitney@Sun.COM (David Chenevert) writes: >> Mr. Kuehler declined to say in what areas the company might move >>next. > >Sue anyone who uses the binary number system, of course. No, they'll sue anyone who uses the DECIMAL number system (maybe they'll just stick to packed decimal, though.) :-) :-) :-) -- Randell Jesup, Commodore Engineering {uunet|rutgers|allegra}!cbmvax!jesup
khearn@pyrglass (Keith Hearn) (06/30/88)
In article <4138@cbmvax.UUCP> jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup) writes: >In article <785@taux01.UUCP> amos@taux01.UUCP (Amos Shapir) writes: >>In article <58192@sun.uucp> duckass%whitney@Sun.COM (David Chenevert) writes: >>> Mr. Kuehler declined to say in what areas the company might move >>>next. >> >>Sue anyone who uses the binary number system, of course. > > No, they'll sue anyone who uses the DECIMAL number system (maybe >they'll just stick to packed decimal, though.) :-) :-) :-) Are the rumors true that IBM holds patents on the Von Neumann machine? :-) Keith khearn@pyramid.pyramid.com
schuh@shorty.CS.WISC.EDU (Dan Schuh) (06/30/88)
This would be funny, but apparently not to IBM. A gloss on the RISC patent stuff in the SF Examiner, June 28, 1988 concludes as follows: IBM said Monday that its patent claims could cover a range of products. " We believe that anyone who is developing an information-handling system would probably need to use an IBM patent," the firm said. Does anyone know what patents are being talked about here? My impression was that most of the 801 stuff was kept under wraps until well after the Berkeley RISC research started to take off. Looks like IBM is looking for productivity from their lawyers since antitrust is no longer a problem. Cheers, Dan (schuh@cs.wisc.edu, uwvax!schuh)
jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck) (06/30/88)
In article <29284@pyramid.pyramid.com> khearn@pyrglass.UUCP (Keith Hearn) writes: >Are the rumors true that IBM holds patents on the Von Neumann machine? :-) Well, US patents are only good for 17 years, so anything anyone invented before 1971 is fair game. So we probably can keep using binary numbers and packed decimal. :-) -- - Joe Buck {uunet,ucbvax,pyramid,<smart-site>}!epimass.epi.com!jbuck jbuck@epimass.epi.com Old Arpa mailers: jbuck%epimass.epi.com@uunet.uu.net If you leave your fate in the hands of the gods, don't be surprised if they have a few grins at your expense. - Tom Robbins