linux-kernel - Re: How innovative is Linux?

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Message-ID: <18046.58325.643267.468662@gargle.gargle.HOWL>
Date:	Mon, 25 Jun 2007 01:36:21 +0400
From:	Nikita Danilov <nikita@...sterfs.com>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc:	Grozdan Nikolov <microchip@...llo.be>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How innovative is Linux?

Alan Cox writes:

[...]

 > 
 > A few innovations that afaik first appeared the Linux kernel
 > - Making multiple hosts appear transparently as one IP address
 > - Futex fast hybrid locking

DEC Firefly workstation, before 1987.

Nikita.
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