New product?

[A. Lester Buck]

In article <289 at pallas.athenanet.com>, lbert359 at pallas.athenanet.com (Lee Bertagnolli) writes:
> There was at least one other
> system on the market before that.
> 
> To say IBM invented RISC is like saying IBM invented virtual memory.

I'm no IBM fan, but please don't confuse IBM products with IBM inventions.
Lots of terrific ideas are trapped inside IBM laboratories because of
marketing decisions.  Just ask the RISC manufacturers whether they
have patent cross-licensing with Burroughs or IBM...

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