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A visit from the trollsA visit from the trollsPosted Oct 15, 2007 17:47 UTC (Mon) by salvarsan (subscriber, #18257)Parent article: A visit from the trolls
Prior art: MIT's Athena/X-windows project, 1984.
Surely, Microsoft does _not_ want these patents pursued unless they have prior 'consideration' with IP Innovation.
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A visit from the trolls Posted Oct 15, 2007 19:54 UTC (Mon) by ghayes78 (guest, #4454) [Link] What about the Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) work on the Alto in 1973 and the Star in 1981, the first mouse wheeling windowing GUI minicomputers. Apple then "borrowed" that work and used it for the macintosh in 1984 ... and the law suite that was filed by Xerox in the 1980s against apple ... and apple sued microsoft and HP ... etc
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE3D91E...
I think this has been hashed out before ... clear as mud ... prior art and prior battles.
A visit from the trolls Posted Oct 15, 2007 22:16 UTC (Mon) by sepreece (subscriber, #19270) [Link] "What about the Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) work on the Alto in 1973 and the Star in 1981"
This is work done in that same group at PARC. I would expect the patent to be written to avoid stuff that wasn't within the one-year window.
A visit from the trolls Posted Oct 15, 2007 20:22 UTC (Mon) by and (subscriber, #2883) [Link] the 'screen' utility also has the concept of "virtual workspaces", but intextmode. the man page of gnu screen says it's copyrighted 1987, but maybe there's an earlier version.
Probably emacs also qualifies when it comes to having multiple buffers
A visit from the trolls Posted Oct 15, 2007 20:41 UTC (Mon) by jzbiciak (✭ supporter ✭, #5246) [Link] Or even Douglas Engelbart's stuff... (Go do a search on YouTube for some neat demos from the late 1960s.)
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