Re: Macintosh Resource Forks and the BeBox

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From: James McCartney
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 1995 04:34

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In article <46k9if$keu@engineer.mrg.uswest.com>, Frank NIchols
<"frank_nichols-contractor@msmgate"@msg.uswest.com> wrote:
> I would like to suggest that we do away with files all together and move
> on to a object soup.

I agree. The only reason file systems need to exist is because there is
not a cheap source of fast non-volatile RAM. If there was it would be much
nicer to have everything be live objects in memory. I say make the entire
disk a virtual address space and forget about files.

   --- james mccartney    james@astro.as.utexas.edu

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From: james@astro.as.utexas.edu (James McCartney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.amiga.programmer,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy
Subject: Re: Macintosh Resource Forks and the BeBox
Date: 25 Oct 1995 04:34:51 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin
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