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From: schuh@shorty.CS.WISC.EDU (Dan Schuh)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: IBM RISC patents (binary and decimal #'s)
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Date: 29 Jun 88 21:44:58 GMT
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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)