IBM System/360 machines had programmable IO Channel processors back in the 1960's. Everything new is old. Nor is io_uring the first or only asynchronous I/O A

IBM System/360 machines had programmable IO Channel processors back in the 1960's. Everything new is old. Nor is io_uring the first or only asynchronous I/O API available to Linux userspace. It's just the best.