Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!know!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!crackers!m2c!umvlsi!dime!dime.cs.umass.edu!nayeri From: nayeri@cs.umass.edu (Farshad Nayeri) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Black Hole, we hardly new ya' Message-ID: Date: 2 Oct 90 21:58:29 GMT References: <400@kaos.MATH.UCLA.EDU>, <0b0CBPi00WBNE2Z9cw@andrew.cmu.edu> <90272.095637SLVQC@CUNYVM.BITNET> Sender: news@dime.cs.umass.edu Reply-To: nayeri@cs.umass.edu Distribution: na Organization: Dept of Comp and Info Sci, Univ of Mass (Amherst) Lines: 21 In-reply-to: SLVQC@CUNYVM's message of 29 Sep 90 13:56:37 GMT In article <90272.095637SLVQC@CUNYVM.BITNET> SLVQC@CUNYVM (Salvatore Saieva) writes: In article <0b0CBPi00WBNE2Z9cw@andrew.cmu.edu>, wb1j+@andrew.cmu.edu (William M. Bumgarner) says: > >I don't know-- I kind of like the Recycling bin concept. > >A black hole implies permanent oblivian. > >The recycling bin implies that your going to take the old bits and >recycle them into something new and useful (in this case, free disk >space)... > Maybe it is because deleting a file on the WORM is like putting it in permanent oblivion (the bits I mean), but same is not true for a hard drive! I haven't seen the creature, just making some (probably dumb) speculation. -- Farshad Nayeri Object Oriented Systems Group nayeri@cs.umass.edu Dept. of Computer and Information Science (413)545-0256 University of Massachusetts at Amherst