[ros-general] Re: More crazy ideas (was: Microsoft wants royalties for use of FAT)

[Martin Fuchs]

On 05.12.2003 19:50:28 Frank D. Engel, Jr. wrote:
> This has been done, and to an even greater extreme: check out
> www.eros-os.org.  That project represents an operating system radically
> different from the ones commonly found now.  There is no file system in
> the traditional sense:  the operating system uses the disk as a
> persistant object store, with checkpointing areas:  the entire system
> state is written to disk from time to time, so that in the event of a
> power failure (for example), the system comes back up with the same
> programs doing the same things that they were doing at the time of the
> last checkpoint; minimal work is lost, and this is done transparently
> from the perspective of the programs.

This description remembers me of Smalltalk:
Completely object oriented environment with persistent objects.

    Martin