X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fbb9d,25fb686ac46c0d5d X-Google-Attributes: gidfbb9d,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-01-29 03:31:57 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!lios!news.gweep.ca!not-for-mail From: Brian Inglis Newsgroups: rec.arts.ascii Subject: Re: [DIS] A little history question Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 11:31:57 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Systematic Software Lines: 33 Sender: robomod@lios.aq2.gweep.ca Approved: rec-arts-ascii-moderator@gweep.ca Message-ID: <3oef3voo4fc0anfpb1so2ovqjbbjbobnml@4ax.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: lios.aq2.gweep.ca 1043839917 3476 127.0.0.1 (29 Jan 2003 11:31:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@lios.aq2.gweep.ca NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 11:31:57 +0000 (UTC) X-Original-Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 11:31:33 +0000 (GMT) X-Trace-PostClient-IP: 68.147.131.211 X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.92/32.572 X-Gweep-Cleanmime: quoted=60% miswrapped=10% Xref: archiver1.google.com rec.arts.ascii:271 On Mon, 27 Jan 2003 08:01:54 +0000 (UTC), google@inio.org (Ian Rickard) wrote: >CJRandall wrote: >> what kind of published document ? on-line or printed ? >Printed would be the only improvement over what I have now. I already >have the google archive of the original posting of the source code in >Feb. '94, along with a binary that someone compiled and posted a few >weeks later. I haven't gotten around to asking if either of those is >admissable, but I doubt it. > >> curious ... what is significant about October 1996 ? >That date is one year prior to the file date of US Patent #6,137,498, >which I'm hoping to use Gifscii as prior art against (specifically the >first two claims). A little more google browsing brought up the following 1987 xposted discussion of the Unisys patent on Lempel-Ziv coding: http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=KPETERSEN.12302199905.BABYL%40SIMTEL20.ARPA referring to patent 4,464,650 -- Willard Eastman, Abraham Lempel, Jacob Ziv, Martin Cohen) assigned to Sperry Univac (now Unisys) Thanks. Take care, Brian Inglis Calgary, Alberta, Canada -- Brian.Inglis@CSi.com (Brian dot Inglis at SystematicSw dot ab dot ca) fake address use address above to reply abuse@aol.com tosspam@aol.com abuse@att.com abuse@earthlink.com abuse@hotmail.com abuse@mci.com abuse@msn.com abuse@sprint.com abuse@yahoo.com abuse@cadvision.com abuse@shaw.ca abuse@telus.com abuse@ibsystems.com uce@ftc.gov spam traps