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From: sambo@ukma.UUCP (Inventor of micro-S)
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Subject: Re: What Unix needs is ...
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Date: Fri, 26-Apr-85 00:49:30 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr 26 00:49:30 1985
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Organization: Univ. of KY Mathematical Sciences
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     Michal Young says:
> If a stronger communication system
> were available, which allowed for instance sending large data structures
> by sending pointers (for instance, by mapping parts of the address space of 
> one process into that of another), then you could have the modularity of the 
> Unix small-process model with the efficiency of the monolithic approach.
     It seems to me what Young might be wanting is some way of doing
coprocessing, and some way of sharing certain things between the processes,
both of which are supported by Modula-2.  Though there are pros and cons for
both Modula-2 and C, I think both these features are desirable in a language.
This, of course, would not solve the problem of combining tools,
each of which is a completely separate program, in a flexible manner.
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Samuel A. Figueroa, Dept. of CS, Univ. of KY, Lexington, KY  40506-0027
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