Re: at&t patents on backing store

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From: Amanda Walker
Date: Wed, 06 Mar 1991 17:31

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brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:

   Just because the patent has to do with a terminal does not mean that it
   cannot apply to X. A patent always applies to equivalents of the
   invention.

Of course.  However, a patent on the BLIT would imply that the backing
store mechanism at issue is the one used by the BLIT, i.e. Pike's
"layers" software.
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