19 Apr
2013
19 Apr
'13
7:55 p.m.
> ISTR that they also overreacted to their blunder
on the ISA bus (they
> reserved no licensing rights) and overcompensated by demanding
> huge fees to license MCA. Third parties said, no thanks....
On Fri, 19 Apr
2013, Jecel Assumpcao Jr. wrote:
This was just the first battle of the war. Though IBM
had no patents
associated with the PC or XT,
??
I remember Lee Felsenstein searching for "prior art" to overturn some.
Such as using 2 16bit/pair-of-8bit registers to hold the coordinates of
upper left and lower right of box/area of screen.
Having achieved that goal, they spent the second half
of the 1990s going
after the PC makers themselves.
In the 1980s, they went after copyright infringement for BIOS.
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com