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Article #74672Re: AT&T Threat against X Windows freedom
From: Haydn Huntley
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 1991 02:51
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 1991 02:51
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In article <1991Feb27.231511.19935@digibd.com> rhealey@digibd.com (Rob Healey) writes: | The concept of backing store strikes me as being something that | could have easily been prior art, but only AT&T bothered to | patent it? Are there any examples of backing store before 1985? | I think AmigaDOS has had backing store since before 1984... I'm not very familiar with AmigaDOS, but the Mac came out in January 1984, and it uses "backing store" to quickly redraw the area occluded by the pulldown menus. -- ;; ***************************************************** ;; * Haydn Huntley huntley@copper.ucs.indiana.edu * ;; *****************************************************
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,b0a85d23901c1430 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-02-27 21:42:14 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!fauern!ira.uka.de!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!bronze!copper!huntley From: huntley@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (Haydn Huntley) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: AT&T Threat against X Windows freedom Message-ID: <1991Feb28.025128.9637@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> Date: 28 Feb 91 02:51:28 GMT References: <1991Feb25.043755.17220@algor2.algorists.com> <1991Feb27.231511.19935@digibd.com> Sender: news@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington Lines: 17