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Prior to Longhorn, Microsoft had previously attempted "database as a file system replacement" as part of Cairo. > Cairo was the codename for a project at Micro
by GeekyBear 3y ago
Prior to Longhorn, Microsoft had previously attempted "database as a file system replacement" as part of Cairo.
> Cairo was the codename for a project at Microsoft from 1991 to 1996. Its charter was to build technologies for a next-generation operating system
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo_(operating_system) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo_(operating_system)
- pjmlp 3y agoSomewhere on my parents attic there is a Windows magazine about Cairo project and all the cool things it would bring. In both cases, Longhorn and Cairo, the only thing that survived were a bunch of COM libraries.