[cap-talk] Academic and patent disconnect - rant, taocp

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 17:45 -0400, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
> From the abstract, they appear to be claiming to have re-invented MxN
> threading, but that was a well established idea by then....

Wait a minute. They weren't trying to nail down MxN threading at all.
They were trying to nail down scheduler activations. That's an
altogether different matter.

Because of the way it caches threads, a significant number of their
claims shadow prior art in EROS.

And the Anderson et al. paper on Scheduler activations goes back to
1991.