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Ditto, the Apple Newton. Didn't have a file system, just a tagged and indexed object store. I'm not sure how well it scales. I do think that simple trees don'
by kabdib 15y ago
Ditto, the Apple Newton. Didn't have a file system, just a tagged and indexed object store.
I'm not sure how well it scales.
I do think that simple trees don't work well (and history argues for this: even early versions of Unix had links). A multigraph would be nice, though tough to delete from.
- jerf 15y agoMultigraphs exacerbate the problem, not solve it. Now, not only can Mom not understand directory hierarchies, your average computer programmer doesn't actually understand them either, even though he thinks he does. Most programmers do not actually understand graphs, or know safe ways to deal with them.... ... and in fact in many ways we already have multigraphs on filesystems, programmers already don't understand them nearly as well as they think they do, they are often nothing but trouble, and we don't see extensive use made of them in very "graphy" ways as a result.