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From: "J-P. Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr>
Subject: Re: Everything You Know Is Wrong
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2015 08:55:38 +0100
Date: 2015-12-27T08:55:38+01:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <n5o5d3$q03$1@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <n5nbml$v32$1@dont-email.me>

Le 27/12/2015 01:37, Jeffrey R. Carter a écrit :
> This will no doubt revolutionize computer architectures and programming
> languages. Instead of computers with distinct memory and storage, there will
> probably be computers with lots of NV RAM (1-10 TB?) but no disk.
> 
> People will no doubt still want a hierarchical naming system for data stored inFor th
> that memory, but presumably S/W will map variables onto these "files". 

Time to resurrect Multics?

(For the education of the young generation: Multics was an OS of the
60s-70s, where everything was organized as "segments" of virtual memory.
There was a command to list "named segments" (equivalent of files),
which was naturally named... "ls".)

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-12-27  7:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-27  0:37 Everything You Know Is Wrong Jeffrey R. Carter
2015-12-27  7:55 ` J-P. Rosen [this message]
2015-12-27 17:37   ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2015-12-27  8:46 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-12-27 17:36   ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2016-01-04 14:44     ` Alejandro R. Mosteo
2015-12-28  9:57 ` Georg Bauhaus
2015-12-28 11:19   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-12-28 16:27     ` Nicholas Collin Paul de Gloucester
2015-12-28 17:30       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-12-28 18:50         ` Nicholas Collin Paul de Gloucester
2015-12-28 20:40           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-12-29 11:42             ` G.B.
2015-12-29 12:36               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-12-29 13:50                 ` G.B.
2015-12-29 14:06                   ` J-P. Rosen
2015-12-29 14:16                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-12-29 16:31                     ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2015-12-29 17:02                       ` G.B.
2015-12-29 16:57                     ` G.B.
2015-12-29 17:36                       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-12-29 17:53                         ` G.B.
2015-12-29 18:09                           ` G.B.
2015-12-29 22:05                           ` Randy Brukardt
2016-01-04 14:51                           ` Alejandro R. Mosteo
2015-12-29 21:58                         ` Randy Brukardt
2015-12-28 17:19 ` Nicholas Collin Paul de Gloucester
2015-12-29 23:37 ` darkestkhan
2016-01-05 13:52 ` brbarkstrom
2016-01-10 14:46 ` Michael Erdmann
2016-02-29 12:14 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2016-03-02 14:11   ` vincent.diemunsch
2016-03-02 14:23     ` J-P. Rosen
2016-03-02 15:44       ` Bob Brown
2016-03-02 16:30         ` J-P. Rosen
2016-03-02 16:36           ` Bob Brown
2016-03-02 16:52             ` Bob Brown
2016-03-02 14:32     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-03-02 15:31       ` vincent.diemunsch
2016-02-29 12:27 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
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