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          Appeal No. 08/911,596                                                       
          Application No. 2001-2049                                                   

          input, and on Greiner for the teaching of a change of state based           
          on threshold and the indication of available memory.  However, it           
          is not clear to us, nor has the examiner provided a cogent                  
          rationale, as to how the references are to be combined, or why              
          the references would be combined, to arrive at the instant                  
          claimed subject matter.                                                     
               Similarly, claims 25 and 29 recite a central processing unit           
          for “selectively enabling the memory to make the first portion of           
          the memory available for storing a second plurality of translated           
          data values in response to a first logic state of the commit                
          input control signal.”  The examiner has not convinced us of any            
          suggestion in the applied references of such selective enablement           
          of a memory.                                                                
               We have not sustained the rejection of claims 34-37, 39 and            
          43 under 35 U.S.C. 102(a) nor have we sustained the rejections of           
          claims 1-33, 38 and 40-42 under 35 U.S.C. 103.                              








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