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IBM AS/400 did this decades ago. It has a unified address space - you only see "space" not disk/ram split.
by spitfire 10y ago
IBM AS/400 did this decades ago. It has a unified address space - you only see "space" not disk/ram split.
- PeCaN 10y agoAS/400 still exists actually, under the name IBM i. I know a person who swears by them. It's a fascinating system. There are no files, only persistent objects living in a 128-bit address space. Downside: still uses EBCDIC….
- snaky 10y agoActually single-level store concept was introduced in Atlas, used in MULTICS, AS/400. [1] Some modern and quite high-performance solutions are using this concept, e.g. LMDB [2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-level_store https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-level_store [2] https://symas.com/getting-down-and-dirty-with-lmdb-qa-with-symas-corporations-howard-chu-about-symass-lightning-memory-mapped-database/ https://symas.com/getting-down-and-dirty-with-lmdb-qa-with-s...