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Re: EOLAS ACQUIRES MILESTONE INTERNET SOFTWARE PATENT

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Masinter)
Mon Aug 21 20:53:35 1995

To: ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu
Cc: info@eolas.com, www-talk@w3.org
In-Reply-To: Simon Spero's message of Mon, 21 Aug 1995 11:53:45 -0700 <Pine.SOL.3.91.950821115020.13893A-100000@chivalry>
From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 1995 17:48:59 PDT
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org

Dynamic exchange of embedded executable code was part of CUSP
(Customer Programming) in Xerox Star and the Interlisp-D mail
system (TEdit had 'Image Objects' which could encode arbitrary
computation.) I'm not sure when CUSP for Star was released, but
Interlisp-D embedded image objects were certainly there by the
mid-80s.



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