Appeal No. 1997-4129
Application 08/237,988
relevant. The Examiner does not reply to Appellants' Reply
Brief and, thus, leaves it to us to sort out the arguments
in the first instance. Rather than further delay a decision
on the appeal by remanding to the Examiner to address the
arguments, we decide the case.
Hughes discloses a system comprising controller 10 and
terminals 12, which are controlled by programs stored in
their respective RAMs (col. 2, lines 59-60). "In order to
operate a terminal, the terminal must know the I/O devices
that are connected to it and obtain programs from the
controller to control these devices." (Col. 3,
lines 47-50.) The programs to control the devices are
"loadable drivers" (col. 3, lines 15-17). Hughes discloses
that during the IPL, the configuration of the list of I/O
devices attached to the terminal is determined and verified
by an operator. Once the configuration is verified, "the
configuration is stored in the hard totals module
[non-volatile memory] of the terminal and is transmitted to
the controller where it is stored on the disk" (col. 5,
lines 24-26). After a reset and during a subsequent program
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