5 Dec
2003
5 Dec
'03
6:58 p.m.
On 05.12.2003 19:50:28 Frank D. Engel, Jr. wrote:
This has been done, and to an even greater extreme:
check out
www.eros-os.org. That project represents an operating system radically
different from the ones commonly found now. There is no file system in
the traditional sense: the operating system uses the disk as a
persistant object store, with checkpointing areas: the entire system
state is written to disk from time to time, so that in the event of a
power failure (for example), the system comes back up with the same
programs doing the same things that they were doing at the time of the
last checkpoint; minimal work is lost, and this is done transparently
from the perspective of the programs.
This description remembers me of Smalltalk:
Completely object oriented environment with persistent objects.
Martin