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IO completion ports (IOCP) was such a brilliant design, and still holds up today. It's fascinating how long it took for similar paradigms to become more dominan
by adzm 4y ago
IO completion ports (IOCP) was such a brilliant design, and still holds up today. It's fascinating how long it took for similar paradigms to become more dominant elsewhere eg with kqueue
- dboreham 4y agoSee another recent thread for my theory (based on what I heard from various Unix vendors at the time) that this was mostly due to fear of MS patent litigation. iirc AIX did have an IOCP-like feature. MS acquired the rights to DEC's patents in this space, handy since IOCP is similar to VMS's QIO.