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

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From: Brendan Gallagher Hoar
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1991 20:34

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How the #$%$$% did THAT get thru the patent office???

ARGH.  So if you arbitrarily pick one of the two most obvious ways to
deal with the big/little endian problem (and you happen to have a lot
of money), you're open for a big lawsuit?  How silly.

Brendan G. Hoar                      bh1e+@andrew.cmu.edu
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From: bh1e+@andrew.cmu.edu (Brendan Gallagher Hoar)
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Subject: Re: Patent on a standard-byte order for intermachine communication
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