Ex parte KAHLE et al. - Page 12




        Appeal No. 96-1426                                                              
        Application 08/001,863                                                          

        have completed appears to be the same.  What we do not find is                  
        appellants' partial data dependency interlocking step of using                  
        "source-to-destination  dependency  interlock  circuitry"  to                   
        eliminate N possible data dependency hazards and then determining               
        that all previous instructions have completed before dispatching                
        the instruction.                                                                
             For the reasons discussed above, the rejection of claims 1,                
        3, 6, and 7 is reversed.                                                        
                                    REVERSED                                            







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