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I wonder how many of the features which other operating systems got much later, such as the unified buffer cache, were due to worries of software patents?
by stevekemp 2y ago
I wonder how many of the features which other operating systems got much later, such as the unified buffer cache, were due to worries of software patents?
- kev009 2y agoUBC is one of the more technically challenging things to retrofit onto BSD, see https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/usenix2000/freenix/full_papers/silvers/silvers.pdf https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/usenix2000/freenix/full_... -- in particular note that it wasn't a universal performance improvement as of that paper. Some long lived UNIX like HP-UX never accomplished it. See http://mcvoy.com/lm/papers/SunOS.vm_arch.pdf http://mcvoy.com/lm/papers/SunOS.vm_arch.pdf and http://mcvoy.com/lm/papers/SunOS.vfs_arch.pdf http://mcvoy.com/lm/papers/SunOS.vfs_arch.pdf