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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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