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To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Subject: Re: Patented algorithm in FreeBSD 
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Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 10:33:45 -0600
From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
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In message <30671.992330850@critter> Poul-Henning Kamp writes:
: Well, the application date is what counts, and that's mar1992, but I'm
: pretty sure that Bill Jolitz had them beat to that date already...

I'm pretty sure that VMS 3.x used a similar technique.  I have my old
VMS internals docs from that time frame (maybe they are from 4.x).
We're talking pre 1990 for sure.

Warner

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