Re: Macintosh Resource Forks and the BeBox

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From: James McCartney
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 1995 15:27

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In article <46pc78$oj8@nef.ens.fr>, espie@lotus.ens.fr (Marc Espie) wrote:

> In article <james-2410952327000001@slip-5-15.ots.utexas.edu>,
> James McCartney <james@astro.as.utexas.edu> wrote:
> >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.

> Just one problem with this scheme: what about bugs ?
> I know of no machine that doesn't crash once in a while.
[etc.]

Good point. A database system with dynamic linking and loading of objects
would be good, then. Basically being able to get away from file format design
and interpreting and crude file system organizational schemes would be a big 
gain for programming, IMO.

   --- 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: 27 Oct 1995 15:27:37 GMT
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