http://renephoenix.de renephoenix.de de-DE Sat, 29 Oct 2005 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.renephoenix.de/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss TM::RSS Sat, 29 Oct 2005 00:00:00 +0200 <p>Früher war das noch anders...<br /> Ich habe gerade folgendes Zitat in der <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bresenhams_line_algorithm" class="linkext">Wikipedia</a> gefunden:<br /> <blockquote>I was working in the computation lab at IBM´s San Jose development lab. A Calcomp plotter had been attached to an IBM 1401 via the 1407 typewriter console. [The algorithm] was in production use by summer 1962, possibly a month or so earlier. Programs in those days were freely exchanged among corporations so Calcomp (Jim Newland and Calvin Hefte) had copies. When I returned to Stanford in Fall 1962, I put a copy in the Stanford comp center library. (...)</blockquote> (Bresenham, der einen grundlegenden Lininenzeichenalgorithmus entwickelt hat)</p><p>Das waren ja noch paradiesische Zeiten... Und heute verklagt man sich wegen den trivialsten Patenten. *kopfschüttel*</p> http://www.renephoenix.de/6080 http://www.renephoenix.de/6080 0 http://www.renephoenix.de/?cmd=rss&related=6080&type=comm 6080