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"What exists is a way to name a non-volatile data set." 1. What if it's "code" not "data"? I thought "data" in this case was just 1's and 0's, i.e. what the
by _quora 14y ago
"What exists is a way to name a non-volatile data set."
1. What if it's "code" not "data"? I thought "data" in this case was just 1's and 0's, i.e. what the represent, e.g. electric charges on a medium? I thought that how we interpret these charges is what makes them "code" or "data".
2. What if the "file" is stored on a "RAM disk"? Is that non-volatile? If no, then does that mean this is not, by your definition, a "file"?
- notatoad 14y ago1. code is data. Thanks, mr Von Neumann! 2. the implementation of the storage is another level of abstraction away. the filesystem assumes the media it exists on is non-volatile, what exactly that means in implementation is irrelevant. theoretically you could call a traditional spinning disk volatile because i could hit it with a hammer and destroy it.