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Patent 5918244
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 08 2012 @ 08:21 PM EDT
no you have got to look at the claims,
see claim 12, any OS with malloc should do:

The caching of system claim 1 wherein each of said computers runs an operating
system and each of said cache drivers allocate to the cache space in the memory
of the computer in which the cache driver resides when creating the cache.

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Patent 5918244
Authored by: PJ on Saturday, June 09 2012 @ 07:24 AM EDT
It could indeed. In fact the patent lists some Open VMS manuals and says they are incorporated into the patent:
The present preferred embodiment of the invention operates under the OpenVMS system. The help in an understanding of the I/O processes in this cache application the reader may find the following OpenVMS documentation useful.

The contents of the following books are hereby incorporated by reference herein.

Title: VAX/VMS Internals and Data Structures: version 5.2
Authors: Ruth E. Goldenberg, Lawrence J. Kenah, with the assistance of Denise E. Dumas Publisher: Digital Press
ISBN: 1-55558-C59-9
Title: VMS File System Internals
Author: Kirby McCoy
Publisher: Digital Press

ISBN: 1-55558-C56-4 Open VMS Manuals

The following manuals are contained in the various Open VMS Manual documentation sets and kits available from Digital Equipment Corporation.

The following two manuals are contained in the Open VMS Optional Documentation kit:

Title: Open VMS VAX Device Support Manual
Order No.: AA-PWC8A-TE
Title: Open VMS VAX Device Support Reference Manual 15 Order No.: AA-PWC9A-TE

The following manual is contained in the Advanced System Management kit within the Open VMS Standard Documentaticn set: 2Q
Title: VMScluster Systems for Open VMS
Order No.: AA-PV5WA-TK

The following two manuals are contained in the Open VMS Systems Integrated Products documentation:
Title: VAX Volume Shadowing Manual 25
Order No.: AA-LB18A-TE

Title: Volume Shadowing for Open VMS
Order No.: AA-PVXMA-TE
The above OpenVMS manuals can be obtained from 30 Digital Equipment Ccirporation at the following address: Digital Equipment Corporation P.O. Box CS2008 Nashua, New Hampshire 03061

USA 35 All of the above listed OpenVMS manuals are hereby incorporated by reference herein.
The patent issued in 1999. It lists James I. Percival as the inventor, and EEC Systems, Inc. as the original assignee. Keep in mind what we've learned about patents, that the only thing that truly matters are the claims, not the description, so if you are free to read patents, click on the link to Claims. Here are the claims as plain text.

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