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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


  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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