> IBM et al had puiblically avaiable journals for the purpose of publishing > things they thought not worth patentng but wanted to prevent other people IBM still have such journals, but they also include lists of new patents. Most of what I've seen in them is probably also subject to patents. IBM run a US patent access web site. British Telecom also used to have similar journals. They still exist, but they reveal a lot less and in some cases are just commercial awareness pep talk for insiders, than before BT started to be (and was) privatised. It looks as though BT's new style management is more afraid of leaking intellectual property than IBM. > patenting. Examples of things disclosed in these journals was time sharing > (before that became popular). How you find these publications and whether they I think you may find that time sharing was not invented by IBM. Not quite the same, but, in the early 1970s, IBM was touting the new technology of virtual memory, but the British Atlas machine had already had this for many years. ; To UNSUBSCRIBE: Send "unsubscribe lynx-dev" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
