[JDEV] OT: AOL Patents IM (Patent creates IM wrinkle )

[Pete Chown]

Hi Federico,

> By Cambridge I assume you mean MIT, and as usually MIT can lay a (often
> well-founded) claim to almost any innovation in a fashion similar to Pavel
> Chekov claiming that Boston Creme (among others) was invented in Russia, I
> did a bit of searching...

No, I meant Cambridge England.  I learned ML, not Scheme. :-)

> It looks like the Tech Review did post claims to the matter. The system
> is called Zephir (or at least it is today), and it dates back to the Athena
> project - official deploy date: 1988.

You seem to have found something from MIT as well, so well done!

-- 
Pete