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: 2001-09-05 00:14:27 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!148.122.208.68!news2.oke.nextra.no!nextra.com!news1.oke.nextra.no.POSTED!not-for-mail Sender: ohk@gong2.clustra.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada OS talk (was: Progress on AdaOS) References: <9n2jcd$b50$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3B950BAD.B23ECB43@san.rr.com> From: Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii NNTP-Posting-Host: 194.143.59.98 X-Complaints-To: news-abuse@nextra.no NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2001 09:14:04 MET DST Organization: Nextra Public Access X-Trace: readme.online.no 999674044 194.143.59.98 Date: 05 Sep 2001 09:14:04 +0200 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:12733 Date: 2001-09-05T09:14:04+02:00 List-Id: Darren New writes: > > 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. Radical, yes, but not new. IBM has done that for ages. -- Kabelsalat ist gesund. Ole-Hj. Kristensen