14 Aug
2002
14 Aug
'02
6:59 a.m.
Damn - I actually paused to think before I typed the Holy Protected Word
And All Its Homonyms, Antonyms, freakin lawyers - backed by Billy's
Billions... maybe DOJ will point Ashcroft at them...
Anyway, I used to use a program for very early DOS machines called
Software Carousel, which basically freeze-dried up to 12 snapshots of the
current TPA and chunked them onto the HD... and assigned each frozen
session to a PF key. So you could switch back and forth between tasks
easily.
Obviously the 'frozen' tasks were just that: there was no backround
processing, they remained suspended until that particular task was brought
back into working memory from the HD.
Cheers
John
14 Aug
14 Aug
7:36 a.m.
Damn - I actually paused to think before I typed the
Holy Protected Word
And All Its Homonyms, Antonyms, freakin lawyers - backed by Billy's
Billions... maybe DOJ will point Ashcroft at them...
Sorry to reintroduce POLITICS to this list, but,...
Do you think that the CURRENT administration is "friendly" or
"hostile" to
big business?
I expect the CURRENT administration to drop all action against MICROS~1.
Anyway, I used to use a program for very early
DOS machines called
Software Carousel, which basically freeze-dried up to 12 snapshots of the
current TPA and chunked them onto the HD... and assigned each frozen
session to a PF key. So you could switch back and forth between tasks
easily.
Is the current "prior art" discussion about the USE of task switching, or
the NAME "Windows"? In other words, is this a PATENT, or a TRADEMARK
issue?
7:39 a.m.
Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) said:
Is the current "prior art" discussion about the USE of task switching, or
the NAME "Windows"? In other words, is this a PATENT, or a TRADEMARK
issue?
Trademark. I think Lindows is just trying to establish that "windows" and
"windowing" were widely-used industry terms before M$ took out the trademark
on that word.
- Dan Wright
(dtwright(a)uiuc.edu)
(http://www.uiuc.edu/~dtwright)
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7:51 a.m.
Quothe Fred Cisin (XenoSoft), from writings of Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 09:35:35AM -0700:
Sorry to reintroduce POLITICS to this list, but,...
Do you think that the CURRENT administration is "friendly" or
"hostile" to
big business?
I expect the CURRENT administration to drop all action against MICROS~1.
Let's face it, blood is thicker than water. Bill Gates, George
W. Bush and Hillary Clinton must all be related, as such similar, and
extreme, weasel-like traits must be inherited from some common source.
They really are playing on the same side of the bizdroidpoliticratical
fence, including their Cuz' Algore, despite the labels of Democrat and
Republican... it's all just a game to fool the gullible voting, and
computer using, serfs.
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8:57 a.m.
On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:
Is the current "prior art" discussion about
the USE of task switching, or
the NAME "Windows"? In other words, is this a PATENT, or a TRADEMARK
issue?
Definitely a trademark issue. Wouldn't it be great if Microscoff lost and
all of a sudden several dozen operating systems calling themselves
"Windows" appeared on the market?
heheheheheheheheheheheheh
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9 a.m.
on 8/14/02 11:35 AM, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) at cisin(a)xenosoft.com wrote:
At the risk of futher de-valuing my shares of Apple, and turning a certain
list member back to looking down on the Macintosh, George W. Bush is a Mac
user. I believe he even subscribes to MacAddict. :-)
--
Owen Robertson
Damn - I
actually paused to think before I typed the Holy Protected Word
And All Its Homonyms, Antonyms, freakin lawyers - backed by Billy's
Billions... maybe DOJ will point Ashcroft at them...
Sorry to reintroduce POLITICS to this list, but,...
Do you think that the CURRENT administration is "friendly" or
"hostile" to
big business?
I expect the CURRENT administration to drop all action against MICROS~1.
11:32 a.m.
On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Owen Robertson wrote:
At the risk of futher de-valuing my shares of Apple,
and turning a
certain list member back to looking down on the Macintosh, George W.
Bush is a Mac user. I believe he even subscribes to MacAddict. :-)
George W. Bush knows how to use a computer?
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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11:41 a.m.
At 05:32 AM 8/14/02 -0700, you wrote:
On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Owen Robertson wrote:
Who says that a Mac is a computer? It's just a glorified Each-A-Sketch!
At the risk of futher de-valuing my shares of
Apple, and turning a
certain list member back to looking down on the Macintosh, George W.
Bush is a Mac user. I believe he even subscribes to MacAddict. :-)
George W. Bush knows how to use a computer? 
12:48 p.m.
Who says that a Mac is a computer? It's just a
glorified Each-A-Sketch!
Infidel. :-P
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9:16 a.m.
On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:
Sorry to reintroduce POLITICS to this list, but,...
Do you think that the CURRENT administration is "friendly" or
"hostile" to
big business?
I expect the CURRENT administration to drop all action against MICROS~1.
George The First will keep George The Idiot from doing anything quite
that blatant. Think "toothless"....
Is the current "prior art" discussion about
the USE of task switching, or
the NAME "Windows"? In other words, is this a PATENT, or a TRADEMARK
issue?
Trademark. But.
Microsoft, AFAICT, would like for this case to cover both as a single
concept. Everyhing I've read about the case itself, and particularly
MS' statements, seems to consider both issues as mutually intrinsic.
Doc
5:27 p.m.
When I was at Leading Edge my first task was to evaluate these packages
- Quarterdeck, Windows 1.0 or DRI GEM. Quarterdeck made the best
package...very fast even on a 640K 4.77Mhz 8088 with a 10MB hard drive.
Windows 1.0 was OK, but GEM kicked butt. Remember DoubleDOS?
Incompatible with everything out there including IBM PCs.
-Chandra
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From: cctalk-admin(a)classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-admin@classiccmp.org]
On Behalf Of John Lawson
Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 11:58 AM
To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: 'Windowing' programs
Damn - I actually paused to think before I typed the Holy Protected
Word
And All Its Homonyms, Antonyms, freakin lawyers - backed by Billy's
Billions... maybe DOJ will point Ashcroft at them...
Anyway, I used to use a program for very early DOS machines called
Software Carousel, which basically freeze-dried up to 12 snapshots of
the
current TPA and chunked them onto the HD... and assigned each frozen
session to a PF key. So you could switch back and forth between tasks
easily.
Obviously the 'frozen' tasks were just that: there was no backround
processing, they remained suspended until that particular task was
brought
back into working memory from the HD.
Cheers
John
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