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SubjectRe: file as a directory
Horst von Brand wrote:

>Peter Foldiak <Peter.Foldiak@st-andrews.ac.uk> said:
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>>Perhaps a better way to think about this is that instead of talking
>>about directories and files, we just talk about objects.
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>Then you have a collection of interrelated objects, i.e., a database.
>Operating systems that work on databases (no filesystem) have been done,
>and are a nice idea... but are far, far away from Unix.
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>
A journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step.

Actually, databases are the wrong solution because they are relational,
and what is needed is a semi-structured query language that is upwardly
compatible with Unix hierarchical semantics, ala
www.namesys.com/future_vision.html
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