Xref: utzoo comp.arch:5381 comp.misc:2731 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!gatech!rutgers!bellcore!tness7!tness1!flatline!erict 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. Lines: 17 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. :-) -- Skate UNIX or go home, boogie boy... J. Eric Townsend ->uunet!nuchat!flatline!erict smail:511Parker#2,Hstn,Tx,77007 ..!bellcore!tness1!/