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

Norman Dunbar wrote:

> 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 ?
>
> Cheers,
> Norm.
>
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