Re: [ossig] Nothing exciting in Comp.Sci. anymore?

[Dinesh Nair <dinesh@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Imran William Smith wrote:

> Good point.  Unix has done well out of the 'everything is a file' method
> - makes for a nice small number of system calls to achieve everything.
> But there could be other ways.

that's because the most primitive method of storage is still serially on
disks. unix provides the primitive calls to access this data. you can
layer any methodology on top of this primitive concept. note that
commercial database engines (oracle, sybase et al) support using raw disk
devices where they layer their layout and access model (including
addressing) on top of the serial access model.

which is why i still say the OP spouted a bunch of rubbish.

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