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Queue mania
Such as, when is a stack not a stack? Last week we linked to a FIFO patent, which is not convincing anyone.
‘Anyone who has ever been to a post office will instantly recognise that a less esoteric name for a FIFO stack is “a queue”,’ says Alan Griffiths.
‘You neglected to say when Mssrs Suzuki and Moriya were granted their patent but I’m quite sure there have been many provable cases of prior art here in the UK.’
Terry Richter at South Downs College adds: ‘I’d like to clarify the stack debate: LIFO is a stack, FILO is a stack, FIFO is a queue and a LILO can be very useful when your brain starts hurting.’
If only the patent examiners had more experience of our UK post offices and access to the expertise of the Backbytes community.
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