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From: John Floren <john@jfloren.net>
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 09:47:05 -0700
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Subject: Re: [9fans] The PATENTED IBM MULTI-PIPE : the evolution of unix
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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