I do not believe we lost this one.

<wherein said central processing unit operates asynchronously to said input/output interface </>11, 13, 16</> Respondents

The way I read our arugument, independent includes not derived from

<Thus, it is clear from the specification and the file history that the concept of “not derived from” is a part of independence. By providing clocks for the CPU and the I/O interface that are independent of each other (including the fact that they are not derived from each other), the CPU and the I/O interface will operate asynchronously with respect to each other.>

Our argument is that inclusion is duplicative. Not needed.

IMO,

Opty