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Re: at&t patents on backing store

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From: Amanda Walker
Date: Tue, 05 Mar 1991 03:54
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foo@elaine20.stanford.edu (castor fu) writes:
>One of the things which I haven't noticed being emphasized
>is that the "backing store patent" is part of a patent relating to the BLIT,
>a remote graphics windowing TERMINAL.  

I was wondering if that was the case.  This points even more strongly at
Pike's scheme, which was done for the BLIT.  I'm beginning to suspect we
just have an overzealous lawyer in AT&T's legal department...

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Amanda Walker						      amanda@visix.com
Visix Software Inc.					...!uunet!visix!amanda
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Subject: Re: at&t patents on backing store
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