12 Sep
2012
12 Sep
'12
10:10 p.m.
On 12 Sep 2012 at 14:33, Fred Cisin wrote:
The HC20 (and its USA subversion HX20)was sometimes
called a notebook,
as was the Radio Shack Model 100. Do those infringe on Apple and
Samsung's "rights"? Then the term faded out for years. Long after the
advent of "laptop" computers, "notebook" was re-introduced by
marketing to refer to small[er] clamshell laptops.
And so it goes--round and round.
Have a look at a 1972 microprocessor, the AES-80:
http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/aes/AES-
80_Microprocessor_Brochure.pdf
Says right there in black-and-white: "microprocessor".
--Chuck