Appeal No. 96-3978 Application No. 08/092,628 specifying a duration of the memory access on an access-by- access basis so as to make a duration of the memory access cycle compatible with the access speed of at least the semiconductor memory devices of the selected memory unit. The Examiner relies on the following references: Morgan 4,980,850 Dec. 25, 1990 (Filed May 14, 1987) Bowater et al. (Bowater) 5,301,278 Apr. 05, 1994 (Effectively filed Apr. 29, 1988) Claims 21-26 stand finally rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Bowater in view of Morgan. Rather than reiterate the Arguments of Appellant and the Examiner, reference is made to the Briefs and Answer for the respective2 details. OPINION We have carefully considered the subject matter on 2The Appeal Brief was filed September 14, 1995. In response to the Examiner’s Answer dated June 7, 1996, a Reply Brief was filed June 27, 1996 which was acknowledged and entered by the Examiner without further comment on April 1, 1997. 3Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007