Minimum set of primitives?

[Chris Bitmead]

Kragen wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, Rodrigo Ventura wrote:
> >         Hum, that gives rise to a non-trivial question: how to handle
> > references, gc and removable media in an hybrid memory/disk system? I
> > mean, what happens if referenced objects are lost?
> 
> That's hard -- I'm looking forward to seeing if the Symbolics people
> know the answer.  I'm sure they've spent a lot of time thinking about
> this problem.

I don't believe Symbolics had an object file system. They just
had a regular style file system. So they didn't need to deal with
this.

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