Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
From: Jan Vorbrueggen <jan@mailhost.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
Subject: Re: Transputer-> Forgotten Futures
Organization: Institut fuer Neuroinformatik, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany
Date: 05 Feb 1998 18:29:53 +0100
Message-ID: <y4d8h2x8mm.fsf@mailhost.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>

andyr@rmi.net (Andy Rabagliati) writes:

> The transputer micro-kernel (scheduler, PAR, ALT) is patented.

Really? The patent system must be even more broken then I ever imagined. The
actual _implementation_ of the ALT is the only thing I can see being patented
(and it's one of the few things that had a conceptual bug 8-))...

	Jan