Messages in this thread |  | | From | "jdow" <> | Subject | Re: Heuristic readahead for filesystems | Date | Wed, 11 Sep 2002 10:51:35 -0700 |
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From: "Davide Libenzi" <davidel@xmailserver.org>
> On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, jdow wrote: > > > Davide, when was the patent on readahead taken out? It has either expired > > or I can prove prior art I did myself on the old StarDrive and HardFrame > > controllers for the Amiga made by Microbotics, Inc. > > I'm definitely not a patent attorney :) but since there's the tendency to > patent almost everything in big corporations ( my Co. gives $ 2K for each > patent filed, plus another $ 1K if it's approved ) I bet that there's a > patent pending somewhere about this. Even if someone have prior art about > hw prefecting, imho there's the possibility to patent a software ( kernel > ) based version of the art. I also do not think M$ to be so dumb to adopt > a technique that is described inside a someone else owned patent in US. > But again, i'm not a patent attorney ...
This was kernel software. It was committed in the mid 80s. (Hm, so a patent MIGHT not be expired by a year or two.) The predecessor device was used to overturn a patent a company claimed on parallel port to SCSI converters. The Microbotics units were rather forward looking for their day.
{^_^} Joanne Dow, jdow@earthlink.net
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