Re: Slashdot | Articles | Yahoo Patents Dynamic Page Generator

1999-11-12 Thread doug . lee
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- Martin wrote: For that matter, a database could be seen as a region of shared memory (the patent specifically includes files as shared memory) and in the case of ObjectStore, which is just a huge virtual memory pager with database-type locking (I'm sure Doug

Slashdot | Articles | Yahoo Patents Dynamic Page Generator

1999-11-11 Thread martian bard
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- Erm Yahoo appear to have patented a method of dynamically generating web pages by using shared memory to hold all the data. I'm not sure I understand the distinction between this and virtual memory, unless it is merely the word 'all' (as in 'all the required data