Re: Patent on a standard-byte order for intermachine communication

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From: David J. Camp
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1991 16:17

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In Reply to this Note From: <Jacob Gore>
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>/ gnu.misc.discuss / cheeks@tantalum.eds.com (Mark Costlow) / Jul 15, 1991 /
>> 4. A method according to claim 1, wherein said file comprises an object
>> file expressed in binary.
>
>Incredible.
>
>Just reverse the bytes in an object file, and it runs on a different
>computer!  This is indeed a revelation...
>

Your joke is funny, but the word "object" refers to more than code
modules.  Its use for that purpose may have distorted its usage in the
language, but it originally applied to a broader class of phenomenon.
-David-

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