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   Ex-Oracle-ite, Nov 19th, 2004 @ 6:04am

   
   

   Got that bit of prior art beat. Take a look at the Oracle 7 Server SQL Reference, Release 7.3 manual dated February 1996 on page 3-6 available at http://download-eat.oracle.com/docs/pdf/A32538_1.pdf with a copyright date of 1996.

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   prior art as well

   

   jim, Nov 19th, 2004 @ 7:12pm

   
   

   do you not think that chairman bill thought of and included this earlier in his basic.
   
   what a bunch of hypocrits. They know this has been around as long as bill in high school, and that it should not be patentable.
   
   yet another illustration of how whacked the "market driven" concept of patents and everything else is these days. (my other swipe at broken government doing absurd things like that is the FCC and the airwaves, and market driven unregulated utilities).
   
   jim

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   I can top that

   

   Chris Reuter, Nov 19th, 2004 @ 11:03pm

   
   

   From page 96 of Smalltalk-80: The Language by Adele Goldberg and David Robson:

   ~~ anObject
   Answer whether the receiver and the argument are not the same object.

   The book is dated 1989. However, it's the second edition and I'm reasonably sure that the operator is also described in the first, which dates back to 1983.

   Of course, there are probably LISP systems from the sixties that had an is-not operator, so I'm still a piker.

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