On  5 Aug 98 at 8:33, Leslie O. Connally wrote:

>  HGross,
>         I have the same question, it appears to me someone should
>         challenge
> this patent. I do not see how it could be enforced anyway, but then
> I have not read the patents, of which I believe there are about 5. I
> plan on getting copies of the patents, but if I understand the
> basics, I don't see how they achieved a patent.
FYI, if you don't know it already: under the URL
http://www.patents.ibm.com/ you can search, read and mostly download
(as scanned tiff(?)-file) nearly all U.S. patents.
Regards
Matthias
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