Subject: RE: A thought about patents

From: "Michael B. Bellopede" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 14:49:13 -0400

network devices are assigned IP addresses, DNS names.  Network devices may
have memory, disks, cache, and CPU/s.

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jon Crowcroft [mailto:[email-masked]]
>Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2000 10:24 PM
>To: [email-masked]
>Subject: Re: A thought about patents
>
>
>internet bogon alert
>"find the server"
>
>is a server where the ip address, DNS name, lat/long of the CPU,
>memory, disk, or cache, transprent or otherwise is"
>
no, above you describe devices, their possible network attributes, and
hardware components.  A server, by definition, is software that provides a
service, and is run on a device such >>as the one described above.

8>)

-Michael B. Bellopede
 [email-masked]
  "There is no spoon."