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From: mat@hou5d.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Why not virtual files?
Message-ID: <939@hou5d.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 4-May-84 10:06:40 EDT
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Posted: Fri May  4 10:06:40 1984
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Y'know, this has been done.  A paper describing an implementation for
v6 (!) was given at the second Usenix (then UUG) conference (the one
at Columbia U.)


It IS a useful file model, but there are things that the stream model
does better.  If we are going to make UN*X a ``big system'', there's room
for both.  Otherwise, let's forget it.  With computer hardware getting
cheaper, I kind of like the idea ..
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					Mark Terribile
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