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 ...
- Davide
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