Okay how about this. Write a program that takes an input image and then generates all possible output files until it comes across one that, when run through a GIF decoder, looks just like your input file. Certainly that doesn't violate Unisys' patents! How can they possibly require anyone to pay for a file generated in that manner?
As was said earlier, maximum memory on an 8080 was 64KB... although it's possible there may have been a "bank switch" card (remember EMS on the IBM PC?) but CP/M itself only could address 64K.
And cellular telephones don't even give you a dial tone, do they? Nor do they have dials. I still haven't figured out how you're supposed to dial a number with no dial and no dialtone.
"Telephones should have wires. Televisions shouldn't. Anything else is heresy."
And why is it that in Xwindows under Linux, if you turn NumLock on (as it always should be) that when you use the mouse, half the buttons on any given app don't work? Apparently NumLock is regarded as a "Shift" key -- even though CapsLock isn't. Or is there some way to change this foolish behavior?
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Of course it would be very slow... but how could they prove you didn't create your GIF files that way?
Okay how about this. Write a program that takes an input image and then generates all possible output files until it comes across one that, when run through a GIF decoder, looks just like your input file. Certainly that doesn't violate Unisys' patents! How can they possibly require anyone to pay for a file generated in that manner?
As was said earlier, maximum memory on an 8080 was 64KB... although it's possible there may have been a "bank switch" card (remember EMS on the IBM PC?) but CP/M itself only could address 64K.
And cellular telephones don't even give you a dial tone, do they? Nor do they have dials. I still haven't figured out how you're supposed to dial a number with no dial and no dialtone.
"Telephones should have wires. Televisions shouldn't. Anything else is heresy."
And why is it that in Xwindows under Linux, if you turn NumLock on (as it always should be) that when you use the mouse, half the buttons on any given app don't work? Apparently NumLock is regarded as a "Shift" key -- even though CapsLock isn't. Or is there some way to change this foolish behavior?