[Etheryte]

Perhaps I simply didn't understand the argument, but doesn't this simply move reading and writing to a different abstraction? Perhaps someone can reword the author's point, I feel like I'm missing something here.

[qbrass]

He just described batch processing like it was a new thing.

[tome]

What part of the article makes you think the author believes he's describing something new?

[qbrass]

The lack of any acknowledgement that it had been done before.

If you were trying to convince someone your concept is possible, wouldn't you point to an already existing example of it if you could?