From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 11:04:48 -0400 From: Kurt H Maier To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-ID: <20130315150448.GA96398@intma.in> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: [9fans] The PATENTED IBM MULTI-PIPE : the evolution of unix pipes Topicbox-Message-UUID: 29b83dd2-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Here's the original iosrv/hub announcement: http://9fans.net/archive/2009/07/278 So what's the real difference between iosrv/hubfs and MULTI-PIPES? Is anyone here good enough at translating patentese to code to tell what the technical differences are? The patent even specifically mentions 9P. khm