mkhaw@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (Mike Khaw) (12/01/88)
> "/bin/cp". UNIX doesn't understand an object oriented file
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I prefer to think of Apollo's file system as a "strongly typed" file
system. If it were really object oriented, I would expect all objects
in the file system to understand, say, the message "dl" rather than
having to have a "dlt" for directory trees and a "dlf" for (most other
kinds, but not all) files (and in SR9.x being able to create Unix files
containing characters that Aegis had to escape with ":" prefixes, and
that couldn't be "dl"-anything-ed but could sometimes be "rm"ed).
It's just marketing hype to call Apollo's filesystem "o-o" rather than
"strongly typed".
Mike Khaw
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