--- 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 is stored in shared memory') 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 [err interactive dudes, that's not the one at Circle, it's a techie from Object Design] will let me know if that's wrong), the difference becomes exceedingly unclear. With apologies to non-techies on 'frendz' http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/11/11/0852257&mode=thread -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
