Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263818AbUJTD4W (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Oct 2004 23:56:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270362AbUJTDvu (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Oct 2004 23:51:50 -0400 Received: from mail.autoweb.net ([198.172.237.26]:35849 "EHLO mail.autoweb.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270523AbUJTDp6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Oct 2004 23:45:58 -0400 Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 23:45:24 -0400 From: Ryan Anderson To: "Jeff V. Merkey" Cc: Dax Kelson , Linus Torvalds , Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux v2.6.9 and GPL Buyout Message-ID: <20041020034524.GD10638@michonline.com> Mail-Followup-To: "Jeff V. Merkey" , Dax Kelson , Linus Torvalds , Kernel Mailing List References: <417550FB.8020404@drdos.com> <1098218286.8675.82.camel@mentorng.gurulabs.com> <41757478.4090402@drdos.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41757478.4090402@drdos.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1048 Lines: 30 On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 02:09:28PM -0600, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > XFS, JFS and NUMA are easy ones. As I understand it, JFS was originally written for AIX. The OS/2 team at IBM rewrote it from scratch for OS/2. Their version was cleaner, so *that* got ported to AIX. (Maybe 5L, not really sure on versions here.) The JFS for OS/2 is the predecessor to the Linux version. Where's the Unix IP infection come from? > RCU and NUMA are not. RCU - originally a paper, implemented in Dynix and in other operating systems from the paper (and patent), implemented in Linux as well. Oh, and disclaimers: IANAL, all knowledge gleaned from extensive reading, not personal experience. Feel free to flame me if I screwed something up. (And I apologize if I did so.) -- Ryan Anderson sometimes Pug Majere - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/