In the early 1980s, VMX sold voice messaging systems to several large corporations, such as 3M, Kodak, American Express, Intel, Hoffmann – La Roche, Corning Glass, Arco, Shell Canada and Westinghouse.

VMX was quite astute at the way they used their patent, asserting infringement first with IBM, AT & T and then Wang, but all three companies reportedly would have been able to invalidate the patent on the basis of prior art.

VMX cleverly achieved a settlement where the patent was let stand, not challenged in court and IBM, Wang and AT & T ( in separate settlements ) received royalty-free licenses to all VMX patents.

The patent was never challenged in court and VMX then continued to assert ( incorrectly ) that it had invented voice-mail and that Matthews was the " father of voice-mail ".

Following the settlement with Wang, VMX settled with Octel Communications in exchange for a small payment and Octel's agreeing not to litigate any VMX patent, Octel received a paid-up, royalty-free license on all existing and future VMX patents.

The surviving company was called VMX, but VMX was all but erased by Opcom except for its name and patent portfolio.

The PowerPC 970 ( G5 ) was the first IBM-manufactured CPU to implement VMX / AltiVec, for which IBM reused the old 7400 design they still had from the design they did with Motorola in Somerset.

IBM consistently left VMX out of their POWER microprocessors, which were intended for server applications where it was not very useful.

IBM enhanced VMX for use in Xenon ( Xbox 360 ) and called this enhancement VMX128.

VMX128 is not entirely compatible with VMX / Altivec, as a number of integer operations were removed to make space for the larger register file and additional application-specific operations.

In 1979, a company was founded in Texas by Gordon Matthews called ECS Communications ( the name was later changed to VMX, for Voice Message exchange ).

VMX developed a 3000-user voice messaging system called the VMX / 64 and was the first company to offer a voice messaging system for sale commercially for corporate use.

Comverse became the leading supplier for messaging services with Telephone Answering Services ( TAS ) and VMX formed a Tigon subsidiary that offered messaging services from a service center in Atlanta.

The Xenon CPU in the Xbox 360 also features VMX, with added proprietary extensions made especially for Microsoft.

Among the many contenders were IBM, VMX, Wang, Octel, ROLM, AT & T, Northern Telecom, Delphi Communications, Voice and Data Systems, Opcom, Commterm, Genesis, Brook Trout, Innovative Technology ( ITI ), Glenayre, BBL, AVT, AVST, Digital Sound, Centigram, Voice-mail International and Active Voice.

Over time, the VBX ( Vision Birch ), VMX ( Vision Maple ), and VX series drums were added to the line, with the VLX being the only discontinued line.

For 2011, the Vision line receives new badges and the VX, VSX, VBX, and VMX lines are succeeded by the VB ( Vision Birch ), VBA ( Vision Birch Artisan ), VBL ( Vision Birch Lacquer ), and VML ( Vision Maple Lacquer ) lines, respectively.

AltiVec is a trademark owned solely by Freescale, so the system is also referred to as Velocity Engine by Apple and VMX by IBM and P. A.

It adds VMX to the POWER series.

While VMX began with a good start, it failed at developing the market, and the company was not a commercial success.

IBM and AT & T also cross-licensed a number of patents to VMX, most of which were obsolete or outdated.

VMX suffered from poor product and ineffective management and was about to fold when Opcom merged with it.

Opcom eventually acquired VMX through a reverse merger, ( Opcom was private and VMX was public ) and the surviving company VMX was eventually acquired by Octel.

Brumidi's son later maintained that Costaggini had compressed and mutilated his father's designs, ambitiously coveting a bit he could claim for his very own.

Instead of the expected `` annoyances '' due to the nature of his mission, he received many calling cards and invitations from `` gentlemen of mark, on whom I had no sort of claim, & have had many more invitations than I could accept ''.

Within fifty years from his death his societies could claim 50, 000 members.

The figure of Anubis itself contradicts any claim that Shrine 261 could be the Ark of the Covenant.

His theological works argued that religious experience is a fundamentally human impulse, not just a Jewish one, and that no religious community could claim a monopoly on religious truth.

Thus, in the Hindu schools, if a claim was made that could not be substantiated by appeal to the textual canon, it would be considered as ridiculous as a claim that the sky was green and, conversely, a claim which could not be substantiated via conventional means might still be justified through textual reference, differentiating this from the epistemology of modern science.

This prescribed a qualifying period of two years before savers could participate in a residual claim.

Once the opportunity to claim was presented by management the savers in particular could be relied upon to seize it.

As Holland has it: " For the first time, a chronicler set himself to trace the origins of a conflict not to a past so remote so as to be utterly fabulous, nor to the whims and wishes of some god, nor to a people's claim to manifest destiny, but rather explanations he could verify personally.

Mark Antony had been the most important and most successful senior officer in Julius Caesar's army ( magister equitum ) and, thanks to his military record, could claim a substantial share of the political support of Caesar's soldiers and veterans.

He also includes Ed Wood's claim that one of his films made a profit and surmises that it was most likely Bride of the Monster, but that Wood had oversold the film and could not reimburse the backers.

The research team reported that he did not consume any food or water during the testing periods, although they could not comment on his claim of having been able to survive in this way for 70 years.

The success of the Attlee Government's welfare legislation in reducing poverty was such that, in the general election of 1950, according to Kevin Jefferys, " Labour propaganda could make much of the claim that social security had eradicated the most abject destitution of the 1930s ".

With Constantine ’ s death in 337, Constans and his two brothers, Constantine II and Constantius II divided the Roman world between themselves, after first deposing of virtually all of the relatives of their father who could possibly have a claim on the throne.

Thus, SETE could not claim copyright on photographs or panoramas of Paris incorporating the lit tower.

A possible defeater or overriding proposition for such a claim could be a true proposition like, " Tom Grabit's identical twin Sam is currently in the same town as Tom.

In principle, claim market socialists, socialist managers of state enterprises could use a price system, as an accounting system, in order to minimize costs and convey information to other managers.

Critics claim the vocabulary and style of the Pauline letters could not have been written by Paul according to available biographical information and reflect the views of the emerging Church rather than the apostle's.

Gérard has not produced the manuscript supporting this claim which, even if true, is unrelated to the later history of the French fry, as the potato did not arrive in the region until around 1735 ; also, given the economic conditions of the 18th century: " it is absolutely unthinkable that a peasant could have consecrated large quantities of fat for cooking potatoes.

Douglass stood and spoke eloquently in favor ; he said that he could not accept the right to vote as a black man if women could not also claim that right.