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Pastimes : The New Qualcomm - write what you like thread.
QCOM 168.09+1.8%Nov 28 9:30 AM EST

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To: T L Comiskey who wrote (1342)1/4/2000 4:44:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (1) of 12235
 
***Some CDMA history*** Old stuff, but some might want to review:
<Many QCOM posters are saying that QCOM pioneered CDMA. Is that really true or did the initial work come from IDC?>
Yes, it is really true. No, the initial work did not come from IDC.

Of course like all successes, CDMA has 100 fathers,
and a mother - Hedy Lamarr
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starting with Ms Hagfish back in 1890, then in 1948 there was more by Shannon
cm.bell-labs.com, plus military applications through the 70s and 80s, then Mighty Q! made it mobile in the late 1980s and through the 1990s, 'breaching the laws of physics' according to a Stanford professor. IDC makes various claims which I won't comment on.

Not all claimants to fatherhood are actually the father.

Some background:
ee.mtu.edu

There are young descendants such as OFDM:
diva.eecs.berkeley.edu

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