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Article #73892Re: Partial list of software patents
From: Steve Simmons
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1991 04:36
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1991 04:36
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In article <1991Jul16.053450.14891@odin.corp.sgi.com> nelson@sgi.com (Nelson Bolyard) writes: >>Data Entry Screen > >Outrageous! Filed in 84? Prior Art! I wrote tranasaction processing >applications for Michigan Farm Bureau Services in 1977 that did this. >Required fields were reverse video, error fields were blinking reverse video. Michael Karaman of ADP Network Services did a fortran library of these which was used by a number of commercial products in 1982. He was employed at ADP Network Services, Ann Arbor at the time. I ought to know, I had to maintain that gawdawful code.... :-) -- "FACT: less than 10% of the psychiatrists in the US are actually practicing cannibals." Rod Johnson
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,6b16024275d7a8be X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-07-18 23:54:59 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!hela!lokkur!scs From: scs@lokkur.dexter.mi.us (Steve Simmons) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Partial list of software patents Message-ID: <1991Jul18.043639.1602@lokkur.dexter.mi.us> Date: 18 Jul 91 04:36:39 GMT References: <MERNST.91Jul12095011@emu.lcs.mit.edu> <1991Jul16.053450.14891@odin.corp.sgi.com> <1991Jul17.002002.25462@netcom.COM> Distribution: gnu Organization: Inland Sea Lines: 14