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Article #40233Inverse video/text
From: 0000-Alan Lovejoy(0000)
Date: Sun, 02 Apr 1989 05:08
Date: Sun, 02 Apr 1989 05:08
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In article <141200011@cdp> sklein@cdp.UUCP writes: >For example, one company patented >the process of ORing the pixels of a character display, and EVERYONE >who uses inverse text has to pay them royalties! Do you mean XORing (exclusive-orring) the destination pixels with a source all of whose bits are 1s? What if one simply uses bitwise NOT? I find it hard to believe that bitmap graphics could have existed longer than 5 minutes (well, maybe 5 weeks) before someone used either NOT or XOR to produce text in inverse video. This patent doesn't sound very enforceable to me. Alan Lovejoy; alan@pdn; 813-530-2211; AT&T Paradyne: 8550 Ulmerton, Largo, FL. Disclaimer: I do not speak for AT&T Paradyne. They do not speak for me. __American Investment Deficiency Syndrome => No resistance to foreign invasion. Motto: If nanomachines will be able to reconstruct you, YOU AREN'T DEAD YET.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!unmvax!pprg.unm.edu!hc!lll-winken!uunet!pdn!rnms1!alan From: alan@rnms1.paradyne.com (0000-Alan Lovejoy(0000)) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Inverse video/text Message-ID: <5894@pdn.paradyne.com> Date: 2 Apr 89 05:08:59 GMT References: <6806@saturn.ucsc.edu> <141200011@cdp> Sender: news@pdn.paradyne.com Reply-To: alan@rnms1.paradyne.com (0000-Alan Lovejoy) Organization: AT&T Paradyne, Largo, Florida Lines: 18