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From: bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A Duff)
Subject: Re: Shared Generic Instance Code
Date: 1997/04/02
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In article <dewar.859987468@merv>, Robert Dewar <dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
>... There is also a problem of patents. DEC holds
>patents on the implementation of shared generics which make it less worth
>while to investigate this approach.

I'm not convinced it's a valid patent.  There was a paper written by
Gary Bray at Intermetrics, which outlines essentially the same approach,
and, I believe, predates the DEC work by several years.

- Bob