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The PPGA form factor, also referred to as socket 370, was created by Intel to offer a lower cost alternative to its Slot 1 packaging. It exemplified the first big move back to sockets after L2 caches were embedded in the processor die and cartridges with the chip and separate L2 cache were no longer needed.
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PPGA - Monty Solomon writes: The patent covers the method of assigning URLs and e-mail addresses of members of a group such that the "@" sign is the dot in the URL. For example, if a group used a so-called third-level URL, www.john.smith.com, the e-mail address would be john@smith.com.I began allocating subdomains to users approximately in 1994 or 1995.I had quite a few customers who had an email address of the formjoeuser@rahul.net and a domain of the form joeuser.rahul.net. Thedomain of the form joeuser.rahul.net would typically have an "A"record in DNS pointing to the user's static dial-up IP address. Idon't recall offhand if any of these subdomains of the formjoeuser.rahul.net pointed to any web site. From a DNS point of view,however, the scheme was the same as the one described above. And oncean "A" record was created in DNS, if any of these users had ever run aweb server on his home machine while dialed in, that web site wouldautomatically have appeared as http://joeuser.rahul.net/ .email address = USER@rahul.netdomain with A record = USER.rahul.nethome machine web site, if any = http://USER.rahul.net/The earliest instance of this scheme that I can find in the CVS logfor rahul.net is:revision 1.7date: 1994/09/11 05:17:18; author: dhesi; state: Exp; lines: +3 -3originmm.rahul.netThe DNS entry added on that day ws:originmm IN A 192.160.13.189The reverse DNS entry is also in RCS for the zone 13.160.192.in-addr.arpa :189 IN PTR originmm.rahul.net. From my billing records for user 'originmm', email address'originmm@rahul.net':10 Sep 94: originmm: ip start date was (none), changed to: 1994/09/1010 Sep 94: originmm: host IP address was (none), changed to: 192.160.13.18910 Sep 94: charge $5 : customized domain originmm.rahul.netSo on or around September 10 or 11, 1994, both the domainoriginmm.rahul.net and the email address originmm@rahul.net existed.Due to the openness of the systems in those days, all of this wasfreely publicized. Anybody doing 'finger' would have seen userslogged in, and if this user had been logged into the UNIX shell atthat time, people would have seen the host name originmm.rahul.net.Anybody doing a DNS query, or a zone transfer (and zone transferscould be done by all in those days) would have easily seen the DNSinformation. The general subdomain scheme was public knowledgebecause it was sent to anybody requesting subscription information.I don't mind mentioning the specific user 'originmm' because thisaccount is no longer an active account and there is no privacyviolation here.(Note: My email address in this posting is valid for email repliesonly if the original Subject line (below) is preserved:Subject: Re: Domain Registrars Sued Over URL PatentIf you use any other subject line, your email to me will bounce back,and the bounce will suggest an alternative email address.)Rahul[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: So Barry, I was a little off in saying*twenty years ago*, but I knew I had seen that addressing method along time before the turkeys gobbled up the patent on it. As Rahulsays it was happening in the early/middle 1990's. So how could theyhave gotten their patent if the patent examiner, et al had done hishomework? PAT]
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