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From: erict@flatline.UUCP (j eric townsend)
Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.misc
Subject: Re: IBM Demands License Fees for RISC
Summary: Nonsense from IBM
Message-ID: <1054@flatline.UUCP>
Date: 7 Jul 88 00:09:09 GMT
References: <1591@microsoft.UUCP>
Organization: a flat near the Montrose, Houston, Tx.
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In article <1591@microsoft.UUCP>, jangr@microsoft.UUCP (Jan Gray) writes:
> [Excerpted without permission from InfoWorld, July 4, 1988:]
>   IBM DEMANDS LICENSE FEES FOR RISC
>   By Martin Marshall
>   The IBM RISC patents cover hardware techology such as parallel instruction
>   execution, which is a key to multiprocessor architectures;



I bet they own the patent for binary representation of data if you ask
them.  They probably own the patent on forcing users to have a parallel
printer port and a serial everything-else port, but they can keep *that*
patent. :-)
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