From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,bc1361a952ec75ca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-09-04 10:19:58 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.gtei.net!newsfeed1.cidera.com!Cidera!cyclone1.gnilink.net!news-east.rr.com!news-west.rr.com!lsnws01.we.mediaone.net!typhoon.san.rr.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3B950BAD.B23ECB43@san.rr.com> From: Darren New Organization: Boxes! X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada OS talk (was: Progress on AdaOS) References: <9n2jcd$b50$1@nh.pace.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2001 17:13:18 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.165.20.19 X-Complaints-To: abuse@rr.com X-Trace: typhoon.san.rr.com 999623598 24.165.20.19 (Tue, 04 Sep 2001 10:13:18 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2001 10:13:18 PDT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:12710 Date: 2001-09-04T17:13:18+00:00 List-Id: > Any OS can treat the file system as a whole separate issue. Not really. My point was that it's possible to create an OS where the concept of "file system" doesn't even exist. I'm not sure what your "kernel" is going to do other than process scheduling and I/O. What did you have in mind? Take a look, for example, at the EROS operating system. It's a bit radical, but there aren't really "files" as such in it, in the sense that the entire disk is one giant swap file and files are simply variables held by processes. You do IPC to a process that has access to the data you want in order to get it. The data isn't just "there" without a process to access it for you. -- Darren New San Diego, CA, USA (PST). Cryptokeys on demand.