ALDL and the Patent WAS Diacom Cable

[Steve Ciciora]

Dosn't it suck that it is so easy to get a patent on 'obvious' stuff?  If
the below is not obvious, then why else did GM engineers implement the
ALDL anyway?

On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, David Cooley wrote:

> At 06:55 PM 11/30/99 -0700, you wrote:
> >Check OUT!!!
> >
> >http://patent.womplex.ibm.com/details?pn=US04796206__
> >
> >Inventor(s):
> >                      Boscove; Joseph A. , Highland Beach, FL
> >                      Kurtz; Hobart L. , Boca Raton, FL
> >                      Prince; Jeffrey E. , Birmingham, MI
> >                      Wiegand; William P. , Birmingham, MI
>