an operating system that actually understands what's going on
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Replying to @rsnous
Hot take: Could start with the file system, which really should be a full database + blob store. No application should have access to any simpler file primitive
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Replying to @narayanarjun @rsnous
That's what was done with the BeOS file system by Be, an Apple spinoff https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_File_System …
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Replying to @DougMerritt @rsnous
Huh, did not know that. Thanks! It's where they've been going with iOS as well!
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Replying to @narayanarjun @DougMerritt
I think it's a perennial dream -- someone brought up the IBM mainframe OS which apparently had structured files and joins, and there was WinFS in Longhorn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinFS
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Rob Pike take from https://interviews.slashdot.org/story/04/10/18/1153211/rob-pike-responds … (2004)pic.twitter.com/D7NYzn2MIw
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