From: jg@pa.dec.com (Jim Gettys)
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@transmeta.com>
Cc: Jim Gettys <jg@pa.dec.com>,
dean gaudet <dean-list-linux-kernel@arctic.org>,
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: X15 alpha release: as fast as TUX but in user space (fwd)
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 14:47:10 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200104292147.f3TLlAO15129@pachyderm.pa.dec.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3AEC8A46.2BA7BF68@transmeta.com>
>
> 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-04-29 21:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-04-28 15:52 Ingo Molnar
2001-04-28 19:53 ` Andi Kleen
2001-04-28 22:56 ` Richard Gooch
2001-04-29 5:13 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-04-29 11:14 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-04-29 16:21 ` dean gaudet
2001-04-29 20:19 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-04-29 21:16 ` Jim Gettys
2001-04-29 21:40 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-04-29 21:47 ` Jim Gettys [this message]
2001-05-02 18:18 ` Matti Aarnio
2001-05-02 19:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-05-02 20:55 ` Fabio Riccardi
2001-04-29 22:29 ` Richard Gooch
2001-04-30 7:02 ` David S. Miller
2001-04-30 7:29 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-04-30 7:51 ` David S. Miller
2001-04-30 14:56 ` Jonathan Lundell
2001-04-29 11:27 ` David S. Miller
2001-04-29 13:32 ` Ingo Oeser
2001-04-29 18:48 ` Richard Gooch
2001-04-29 18:55 ` Gregory Maxwell
2001-04-29 19:02 ` Richard Gooch
2001-04-29 19:47 ` Gregory Maxwell
2001-04-29 19:54 ` Richard Gooch
2001-04-29 20:11 ` Ingo Oeser
2001-04-29 20:18 ` Gregory Maxwell
2001-04-30 0:13 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-04-29 20:45 ` Arjan van de Ven
2001-04-29 22:20 ` Richard Gooch
2001-04-30 16:46 ` Alan Cox
2001-04-29 22:18 ` Richard Gooch
2001-04-29 19:38 ` Jamie Lokier
2001-04-29 23:53 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-04-30 8:42 ` Pavel Machek
2001-05-03 7:13 ` Kai Henningsen
2001-05-03 7:44 ` Keith Owens
2001-05-03 10:37 ` Ingo Oeser
2001-05-03 15:44 ` Gregory Maxwell
2001-05-07 19:04 ` Pavel Machek
2001-05-03 9:37 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-07 19:03 ` vsyscalls [was Re: X15 alpha release: as fast as TUX but in user space (fwd)] Pavel Machek
2001-05-03 12:23 ` X15 alpha release: as fast as TUX but in user space (fwd) Helge Hafting
2001-05-03 19:09 ` Pavel Machek
2001-05-03 19:50 ` agrawal
2001-05-07 19:07 ` vsyscallRe: " Pavel Machek
2001-05-03 20:19 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-03 20:41 ` Gregory Maxwell
2001-05-04 8:06 ` Pavel Machek
2001-05-04 17:31 ` dean gaudet
2001-05-04 8:43 ` bert hubert
2001-05-02 10:52 ` Andi Kleen
2001-05-02 10:53 ` Ingo Molnar
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