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- From: bergstro@src.honeywell.com (Pete Bergstrom)
- Subject: OO File system (was re: os/2's som)
- In-Reply-To: "stephen dawson"'s message of 21 Jul 92 20: 37:25 EST
- To: comp.os.os2.misc
- Message-ID: <9207221528.AA15892@data.src.honeywell.com>
- Posted-Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 10: 28:01 CDT
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- Organization: Honeywell Systems & Research Center
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 15:28:01 GMT
- Received-Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 10: 28:02 CDT
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- From: "stephen dawson" <stephen.dawson@canrem.com>
- >"roger ramsey" <roger.ramsey@canrem.com> writes
- >
- >>You mean like Norton Desktop does right now? And like WPS does for
- >>OS/2? Wow! Microsoft's new technology is simply bundling
- >>competitor's innovations!
-
- There are really no innovations in either OS/2 or NT - they are simply
- new implementations of unix. If you want to see innovation, look at
- Mach (yes, NT may follow some of the principles of Mach, i.e.,
- microkernel, but right now it appears to be a unix clone).
-
-
- >>An object oriented file system provides considerably more than simple
- >>Norton Desktop type functionality. It provides things like directory
- >>services and hooks for document management.
- >Care to expand on what you mean by "directory services" and "hooks"?
-
- An OO file system would allow a developer (at whatever level) to
- insert an object that alters or supersedes the behavior of parts of an
- existing file system. This subclassing is actually used in
- programming the behaviors of PM (and windoze) windows and dialogs.
-
- One of the simplest uses of this would be to treat .zoo files as
- directories, allowing the "dir" command to view a list of the
- contents, "cd" into a .zoo file, apply "type" or "start" to a file
- within, etc.
-
- >The WPS has features that I would describe by these terms. Maybe
- >OS/2's System Object Module has more features than you realize. :-)
-
- It does have more features, however there is a long way to go before
- these boxes are really useful.
-
- Pete
-