It doesn't matter whether is is right or wrong
It doesn't matter whether is is right or wrong
Posted Jun 13, 2003 17:22 UTC (Fri) by xorbe (guest, #3165)Parent article: Does SCO own read-copy-update?
The company behavior has been completely unacceptable
concerning this matter, and they should be fined for,
uh, causing terror and financial disruption in the
marketplace for advancing their own agenda.
Posted Jun 15, 2003 13:38 UTC (Sun)
by edt (guest, #842)
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IBM's DMS product from the 70s-80s used something that could be called read Prior art - maybe?
copy update. To avoid locking records being updated it would get the record,
save a copy let the user do his or her thing with it, get the record a second time,
this time locking it, compare the originals. If they were the same the update
would proceed, but the time the record was locked would be quite short.
They called this Save Compare mode. Could this be prior art?
Ed Tomlinson
ps. if my memory serves me correctly the product number was 5746-xc4