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From: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: IBM RISC patents
Message-ID: <2252@epimass.EPI.COM>
Date: 29 Jun 88 22:42:13 GMT
References: <29284@pyramid.pyramid.com>
Reply-To: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck)
Organization: Entropic Processing, Inc., Cupertino, CA
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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. :-)
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