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• Subject: RE: US Patent 6,687,897
• From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@n...>
• Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 12:32:31 -0000
• Cc: "'Michael Champion'" <mc@x...>,"'XML DEV'" <xml-dev@l...>
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> but then the #! of the unix exec call is probably the real 
> precursor of all these ideas, and the file system simply a 
> place to store the scripts.

I sometimes wonder what would have happened if some of the really
fundamental ideas in computer science, like the use of a stack to store
return addresses of subroutine calls (attributed to David Wheeler) had
been patented.

Michael Kay

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  • RE: US Patent 6,687,897
    • From: Rick Marshall <rjm@z...>

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