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Subject: Re: Writing an Operating System in Ada - now off topic?
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Maciej Sobczak wrote:

> 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

        I think it's time to rename this thread. :-)
Leslie