Article View: gnu.misc.discuss
Article #73900Re: Patent on a standard-byte order for intermachine communication
From: Tim Bradshaw
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1991 16:48
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1991 16:48
21 lines
1580 bytes
1580 bytes
>>>>> On 15 Jul 91 09:31:47 GMT, mathew@mantis.co.uk (Industrial Poet) said: > (Richard Stallman) writes: >> US patent number 4,956,809 covers using a single standard byte >> ordering for transfer of data between machines whose normal byte >> ordering is different. >> [...] >> >> This is exactly what is covered by US patent 4,956,809. > [...] > "See, some people write their numbers with the millions on the left and the > ones on the right. Other people write their numbers with the millions on the > right and the ones on the left. We've got this great idea... if these people > talk to each other, they should decide on just one way of writing numbers so > that they can understand each other. Can we have a patent?" Probably not. But I reckon you could make a fair stab at a big-endian/little-endian mail address patent. -tim
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<TIM.91Jul18174857@kahlo.cstr.ed.ac.uk>Path:
arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!helium!cstr!timReferences:
<9107131607.AA14833@mole.gnu.ai.mit.edu> <oND551w164w@mantis.co.uk>Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,9a4c815047ed049b X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-07-19 10:43:10 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!helium!cstr!tim From: tim@cstr.ed.ac.uk (Tim Bradshaw) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Patent on a standard-byte order for intermachine communication Message-ID: <TIM.91Jul18174857@kahlo.cstr.ed.ac.uk> Date: 18 Jul 91 16:48:57 GMT References: <9107131607.AA14833@mole.gnu.ai.mit.edu> <oND551w164w@mantis.co.uk> Sender: news@aifh.ed.ac.uk (Network News Administrator) Organization: CSTR, University of Edinburgh Lines: 21 In-Reply-To: mathew@mantis.co.uk's message of 15 Jul 91 09:31:47 GMT