From: Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homepage@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Writing an Operating System in Ada
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 13:52:40 -0800 (PST)
Date: 2010-01-12T13:52:40-08:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <414945fd-8ed5-4f42-a237-0685602332b3@f5g2000yqh.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 9oyblld05omh$.1dzhmyoseeb7x$.dlg@40tude.net
On 12 Sty, 20:56, "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mail...@dmitry-kazakov.de>
wrote:
> There should be no file system at all. If you have objects, I mean if you
> do have them consistently all the way, then you do not need files. Make
> objects persistent in the corresponding device, that gives you all
> functionality of any file. No I/O is ever needed. Map the object into the
> memory, call its operations, what else any program would have to do?
Interact with other systems? You know, you might want to sometimes
move your "persistent objects" to another machine.
Did I mention that you might want to move you whole hard drive to
another machine as well? :-)
There is a reason why none of the pure-OO-OS-let's-do-it-correctly
ever really took off.
> The problem is that we followed the wrong path for too long.
There is nothing wrong with that path, as it happens to be very
pragmatic.
--
Maciej Sobczak * www.msobczak.com * www.inspirel.com
Database Access Library for Ada: www.inspirel.com/soci-ada
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-12 21:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 67+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-12 1:13 Writing an Operating System in Ada Shark8
2010-01-12 3:30 ` Leslie
2010-01-12 7:06 ` Shark8
2010-01-12 8:36 ` Ludovic Brenta
2010-01-12 15:14 ` jonathan
2010-01-12 16:21 ` Colin Paul Gloster
2010-01-12 16:36 ` Shark8
2010-01-12 17:03 ` Colin Paul Gloster
2010-01-12 19:07 ` Tero Koskinen
2010-01-12 9:41 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-01-12 17:37 ` Shark8
2010-01-12 19:56 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-01-12 21:21 ` Shark8
2010-01-12 22:39 ` nobody
2010-01-12 22:50 ` Shark8
2010-01-15 22:45 ` nobody
2010-01-19 21:09 ` Shark8
2010-01-12 21:52 ` Maciej Sobczak [this message]
2010-01-12 23:26 ` Shark8
2010-01-13 9:17 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-01-13 20:20 ` Shark8
2010-01-13 20:55 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-01-13 22:50 ` Shark8
2010-01-14 8:55 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-01-14 18:01 ` Shark8
2010-01-14 19:04 ` tmoran
2010-01-19 19:07 ` Shark8
2010-01-14 19:53 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-01-14 21:07 ` Shark8
2010-01-14 21:50 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-01-15 1:24 ` Randy Brukardt
2010-01-15 8:59 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-01-19 18:58 ` Shark8
2010-01-19 19:43 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-01-14 9:40 ` Maciej Sobczak
2010-01-14 10:28 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-01-14 18:57 ` tmoran
2010-01-14 19:19 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-01-14 20:33 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-01-14 21:09 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-01-14 21:50 ` Maciej Sobczak
2010-01-15 8:37 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-01-15 21:05 ` Maciej Sobczak
2010-01-15 21:48 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-01-16 21:18 ` Maciej Sobczak
2010-01-16 22:15 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-01-18 11:23 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-01-18 13:50 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-01-18 15:21 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-01-18 16:41 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-01-18 17:17 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-01-18 18:08 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-01-19 17:41 ` Writing an Operating System in Ada - now off topic? Leslie
2010-01-13 9:09 ` Writing an Operating System in Ada Georg Bauhaus
2010-01-13 9:27 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-01-13 3:38 ` Leslie
2010-01-13 12:10 ` Martin
2010-01-13 18:55 ` Ad Buijsen
2010-01-14 9:12 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2010-01-14 10:45 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-01-14 11:31 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2010-01-14 13:47 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-01-14 18:57 ` tmoran
2010-01-13 4:49 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-01-13 17:29 ` Lucretia
2010-01-13 20:37 ` Shark8
2010-01-16 0:13 ` Lucretia
replies disabled
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox