Messages in this thread | | | From | (Jim Gettys) | Date | Sun, 29 Apr 2001 14:47:10 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: X15 alpha release: as fast as TUX but in user space (fwd) |
| |
> > Short summary: depending on how much you were talking general idea versus > specifics, you can go arbitrarily far back (I wouldn't be surprised if > shared memory techniques were used regularly before memory protection.) > > Fair?
Very fair.
> > Not to pick on you or anyone else, but it is well-known to everyone > except the U.S. patent office that "there are no new ideas in computer > science." :) >
Exactly why I noted in my mail that I didn't consider it novel even back then; just a good engineering idea that we went ahead and used a long time ago... - Jim -- Jim Gettys Technology and Corporate Development Compaq Computer Corporation jg@pa.dec.com
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |