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That's certainly a new approach for Microsoft. They have a long history of writing things that are clearly inspired by open source projects, but failing to men
by maxlybbert 11y ago
That's certainly a new approach for Microsoft. They have a long history of writing things that are clearly inspired by open source projects, but failing to mention the inspiration:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppFabric_Caching https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppFabric_Caching vs memcached
* https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa904937%28v=vs.85%29.aspx https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa9... vs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futex
* https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb968799%28v=vs.85%29.aspx https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb9... vs rsync
- blakeyrat 11y agoBITS is nothing like rsync. The purpose of BITS is to allow low-priority downloads/uploads to progress without impacting the real-time network traffic on the machine. (The classic use being to download Windows Updates without annoying the user by slowing down their web surfing.) Rsync exists to synchronize folders between machines.
- maxlybbert 11y agoThanks for the correction. I have never used BITS, but at one time I thought the description of "intelligently transfer files over the network" sounded familiar.