Re: How to make lock escalation look good...

norman.dunbar_at_lfs.co.uk (Norman Dunbar) wrote in message news:<3078e2fe.0305210552.a8b3ee7_at_posting.google.com>...
> wizofoz2k_at_yahoo.com.au (Nuno Souto) wrote in message news:<73e20c6c.0305201424.4b707c41_at_posting.google.com>...
> >
> > Amazing! How to make lock escalation "look and feel" like
> > an "advantage", while completely distorting and misrepresenting
> > the Oracle lock mechanism.
>
> And another thing, this locking mechanism is patented - which makes me
> wonder how exactly they managed that. My Sinclair QL uses exactly the
> same linked list system when multiple jobs on the system need access
> to a resource. One job has it and when done, flags the next job that
> it can have it.
>
> This, in a home computer built in 1982 for crying out load. Can
> American companies patent stuff that has been around for years then ?

Lotsa stuff on slashdot about this:
http://slashdot.org/search.pl?query=patent+prior+art&op=stories&author=&tid=&section=&sort=2

Diff between Europe and America:
http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue8_3/kahin/index.html

Bounty for prior art:
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/02/15/bountyquest/index.html

If you can't abuse the legal system, abuse the patent office! http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=0006E2EC-C9DA-1E8C-8EA5809EC5880000&catID=2

And of course, how much would you pay for these? http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=0&f=S&l=50&TERM1=microsoft&FIELD1=&co1=AND&TERM2=&FIELD2=&d=ptxt

jg

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@home.com is bogus.
And that's not even counting how many ridiculous steam iron patents!