Re: Macintosh Resource Forks and the BeBox

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From: Mark Eaton
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 1995 19:19

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In article <james-2710951019440001@slip-26-12.ots.utexas.edu>,
james@astro.as.utexas.edu (James McCartney) wrote:

> 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.
> 

See Newton, Apple, PDA.

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From: marke@nwlink.com (Mark Eaton)
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: Fri, 27 Oct 1995 11:19:30 -0800
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