From: gabriele renzi <surrender_it@...>
Date: 2005-04-01T07:14:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Respect and Disappointment

Mark Probert ha scritto:
> Hi .. 
> 
>  On Thursday 31 March 2005 07:09, Randy Kramer wrote:
> 
>>On Thursday 31 March 2005 06:04 am, Lopy wrote:
>>
>>>What's worse, the so called "hackers" really like that
>>>"everything is a file" mantra.
>>
>>What is the alternative mantra / paradigm?
>>
> 
> 
> Have a look at 
> 
>   http://tunes.org/Review/OSes.html
> 
> A few paradigms come to mind:
> 
>   Object Oriented -- all OS components are first class objects (Oberon)
>   Distributed Objects -- all OS components are distributed objects (Amoeba)
>   No Files -- there is no concept of files at all, just an app (embedded OSs) 
> 
> The "everything is a file" is a *nix mantra.  The original MacOS wasn't like 
> that at all.

sorry, but is'nt winNT based on the everything is a object?