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I remember back in the 80s thinking that a file system that was organized like a relational database¹ would be a really wonderful thing. Files could live in mul
by dhosek 3y ago
I remember back in the 80s thinking that a file system that was organized like a relational database¹ would be a really wonderful thing. Files could live in multiple places with little difficulty and any sort of metadata could be easily applied to files and queried against.
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1. I had read the original paper on database normalization over the summer and was on a database high at the time. I was young.
- rad_gruchalski 3y agoSounds like winfs: https://www.betaarchive.com/wiki/index.php/WinFS#:~:text=WinFS%20was%20based%20on%20SQL,such%20as%20contacts%20and%20calendars https://www.betaarchive.com/wiki/index.php/WinFS#:~:text=Win....
- notaharvardmba 3y agoAS/400 was doing this in the 80’s…