Jan Steinman wrote: >I believe the Pick operating system from the 70's had a database filesystem, for >example. It was popular among business types. As I recall, it also had a BASIC >command interpreter as its primary way of interacting with the system. > FWIW, we use Pick database systems quite a bit where I work -- see http://www.picksys.com and http://www.jbase.com for more information.
>Today's "modern" operating systems really stopped evolving in the 80's. Many ideas >like database filesystems never really got a chance to show their utility. > Although recent filesystem developments like ReiserFS (especially version 4) are really shining through. >I agree that it would be interesting to slide MySQL under a filesystem, but it sounds >like a lot of work! > > ... although probably not the least bit useful -- if you look at some of the great stuff Reiser4 does, you probably won't see a need to use a backend like MySQL at all. -- Michael T. Babcock C.T.O., FibreSpeed Ltd. http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
