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Subject: Re: seeking refs re:  special-purpose filesystems, object-oriented Unix
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Peter Honeyman when he was still at Princeton, around 1985 or so, did a
special purpose file system for sending mail, called /mail, for V8 Unix.
There was an article on it in one of the Usenix proceedings.  You edited
/mail/host/person and when you were done, it sent the mail to that person.
It used pathalias to figure out uucp paths.

It was kind of neat, but I'm not sure it generalized completely the way
one would like.  Anyway, check out the Usenix proceedings from '84 to '86.
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