Re: Macintosh Resource Forks and the BeBox

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From: mjp3783
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 1995 00:49

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

Are you willing to deal with the 20-30% speed loss (depends on memory and tlb
hits)? I am not. I like the Amiga method of buffered libraries (load em in and
flush em out when you need space). Do the same thing with objects..

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

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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: 30 Oct 1995 00:49:08 GMT
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
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