From: John Floren <john@jfloren.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] The PATENTED IBM MULTI-PIPE : the evolution of unix pipes
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 09:47:05 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAL4LZyg0_i-sgVpwcZSM3BoGxd9E6ysY0B9bMyFAcahPjbmQPA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130315150448.GA96398@intma.in>
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 8:04 AM, Kurt H Maier <khm-9@intma.in> wrote:
> 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
>
The primary difference is that the multi-pipes patent is probably
shorter than that announcement.
I probably didn't read the iosrv and hubfs stuff well enough, but
multi-pipes are not like gnu screen--unless hubfs and/or iosrv can do
barriers and reduces and I just missed that part?
john
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-15 16:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-15 13:21 mycroftiv
2013-03-15 14:58 ` erik quanstrom
2013-03-15 15:04 ` Kurt H Maier
2013-03-15 15:51 ` hiro
2013-03-15 16:47 ` John Floren [this message]
2013-03-15 17:29 ` Bakul Shah
2013-03-15 17:37 ` hiro
2013-03-15 17:46 ` Kurt H Maier
2013-03-15 18:17 ` Bakul Shah
2013-03-15 18:21 ` erik quanstrom
2013-03-15 20:32 ` Charles Forsyth
2013-03-15 19:20 ` Matthew Veety
2013-03-15 19:26 ` Kurt H Maier
2013-03-15 15:31 mycroftiv
2013-03-15 17:17 mycroftiv
2013-03-15 17:28 ` John Floren
2013-03-15 17:41 mycroftiv
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