FWD: Regarding the Microsoft patent
----- Forwarded message from peter karlsson <peter@softwolves.pp.se> -----
Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 21:35:00 +0200 (CEST)
From: peter karlsson <peter@softwolves.pp.se>
To: joeyh@debian.org
Subject: Regarding the Microsoft patent
Organization: /universe/earth/europe/sweden/vasteras
Hi!
Since the original address was omitted in the message linked from DWN, could
you please forward this to the original author? TIA.
>Installing and updating a software program module component. A
>determination is made whether the current date is on or after a date stored
>in a registry key on a computer. If the current date is on or after the
>date stored in the registry key, then a computer transmits a database query
>via the Internet to a database server.
This sounds like a perfect description of the Internet update functionality
that was included in IBM OS/2 Warp 3.0 which was released in 1994. It had a
program that would connect to IBM's Gopher server, and check which program
updates available there was not installed on the local machine, presenting
the list to the user, and then letting the user select what to download, and
after the download, the updates are installed.
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see shy jo
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