Tunes: Fw: Re: more

[Alexander Bostrom]

Here's something from a BeBox mailing list.

>From: Bill Brooks <wbrooks@lore.acs.calpoly.edu>
>To: bedevtalk@be.com
>Status: U
         ^ Uh, no...

>On Sun, 28 Jul 1996, Jon Ragnarsson wrote:
>
>> Why should the user worry about persistent and temporary storage?
>> The RAM should be thought of as a cache for the OS, IMHO. The user
>> should just edit-file instead of load-edit-save-file, right?
>> The boundary between disks and memory are getting more and more blurred.
>> [..stuff deleted..]
>>
>
>This is one of the things that Taligent's CommonPoint did completely
>right, may it rest in peace. In an application, the user had "open"
>and "close". Saving was nonexistent, the OS handled it automatically.
>If you had a system crash in the middle of modeling the GDP in a
>spreadsheet it restored from an internal cache it had for each running
>app - complete with _all_ of the undo/redo stack - when you recovered.
                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Does that include the versions you wrote two days ago too? I want that!

>We could get into
>how it was implemented, but we'd probably run afoul of one or more of
>their 250+ software patents.

Will Tunes!?!

>Bill

- Alex