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From: eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Split I and D caches and IBM lawyers
Message-ID: <1250@eos.UUCP>
Date: 9 Aug 88 20:45:21 GMT
References: <62370@sun.uucp> <15086@apple.Apple.COM> <62555@sun.uucp> <8729@pur-ee.UUCP>
Reply-To: eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya)
Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Calif.
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In article <8729@pur-ee.UUCP> hankd@pur-ee.UUCP (Hank Dietz) writes:

>The unfortunate thing about the IBM patents is not the patents themselves,
>but the PUBLIC USE OF THEM AS A SCARE TACTIC.

It was said during the "auto crisis:" when the new regulations come out,
Detroit hires 200 lawyers, XXX (back then it was the Japanese), hires 200
engineers.

Another gross generalization from

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