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From: darcy@druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
Subject: MWC Byte ordering patent
Message-ID: <1992Aug5.122331.1436@druid.uucp>
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1992 12:23:31 GMT
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Organization: D'Arcy Cain Consulting
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jim@ferkel.ucsb.edu (Jim Lick) writes:
>Unfortunately, I am also boycotting Mark Williams Corp. as they hold a
>patent on the method of swapping bytes for translation between devices
>of different endians.  I was previously a Coherent owner until their
>patent was approved.

Anyone else remember how MWC was going to give us their side of the story
as soon as the flames died down?  Did I just miss it or did they mean when
the flames have died down for about 50 years?

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