gjm comments on The Growth of My Pessimism: Transhumanism, Immortalism, Effective Altruism. - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gjm 29 November 2015 10:59:00PM 1 point [-]

Yeah, as I said above US4136359 is doubtless an excellent patent but it really isn't in any useful sense a patent on the personal computer. It's a patent on a way of getting better raster graphics out of a microcomputer connected to a television.