[Info-vax] Anyone interested in another public access system

[Bob Eager]

On Sat, 11 Apr 2009 17:19:32 UTC, JF Mezei 
<jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> wrote:

> Consider how Unix/Widnows applications rely on reading whole text files
> into memory instead of using proper indexing into files. Applications
> just as itunes and iphoto come to mind where they really should be using
> some form of indexed file to deal with large number of records instead
> of having a flat text file to store all record which needs to be
> rewritten completely whenever you make changes.

That's just a badly designed application, not a function of the 
operating system. I agree that since UNIX doesn't provide a standard 
'indexed file' access method, applications have to do it themselves; but
there is (for example) a heavily used (by properly designed 
applications) shareable library which does NOT read everything into 
memory. That's very little different from RMS, except that RMS is 
provided as part of the system.

-- 
Bob Eager