From: Paul Ruizendaal <pnr@planet.nl>
To: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] VFS prior to 1984
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2020 16:53:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <294D0B70-CDBB-41FE-8F3D-035562863D44@planet.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200629144531.GD16252@mcvoy.com>
> On 29 Jun 2020, at 16:45, Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 11:11:17AM +0200, Paul Ruizendaal wrote:
>> As several people have observed in this topic, indeed there appears to be a close relationship between a device switch and a file system switch.
>
> Yep. If you think in objects, they are both objects with a set of methods.
> Pretty much two instances of the same idea.
Phrased that way all OO programs have a close relationship between them. Maybe: "they are both rather similar objects with a rather similar set of methods"?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-06-29 14:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-29 9:11 Paul Ruizendaal
2020-06-29 14:45 ` Larry McVoy
2020-06-29 14:53 ` Paul Ruizendaal [this message]
2020-06-29 15:14 ` Larry McVoy
2020-06-29 16:34 ` Heinz Lycklama
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2020-06-25 20:25 Noel Chiappa
2020-06-26 5:49 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2020-06-26 8:34 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-06-26 11:13 ` arnold
2020-06-25 20:23 Noel Chiappa
2020-06-25 19:31 Noel Chiappa
2020-06-24 18:31 Norman Wilson
2020-06-25 6:22 ` arnold
2020-06-24 17:51 Noel Chiappa
2020-06-24 18:13 ` Richard Salz
2020-06-24 18:46 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2020-06-24 14:31 Noel Chiappa
2020-06-24 15:21 ` Clem Cole
2020-06-23 22:17 Norman Wilson
2020-06-23 22:24 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-06-24 4:09 ` Warner Losh
2020-06-24 5:10 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-06-24 5:33 ` Bakul Shah
2020-06-24 9:10 ` Andrew Warkentin
2020-06-23 9:09 Paul Ruizendaal
2020-06-23 14:01 ` Larry McVoy
2020-06-23 15:12 ` Clem Cole
2020-06-23 15:55 ` Rich Morin
2020-06-23 20:38 ` Rob Pike
2020-06-23 20:57 ` Larry McVoy
2020-06-24 5:14 ` arnold
2020-06-24 21:08 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-06-24 19:30 ` Clem Cole
2020-06-24 19:36 ` Larry McVoy
2020-06-25 6:52 ` Rob Gingell
2020-07-05 0:05 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-07-05 0:16 ` Larry McVoy
2020-07-06 4:42 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-07-06 16:51 ` Chris Torek
2020-07-07 1:07 ` Bakul Shah
2020-07-05 1:43 ` Clem Cole
2020-07-05 14:43 ` Larry McVoy
2020-07-05 18:40 ` Arthur Krewat
2020-07-05 20:08 ` Clem Cole
2020-07-05 20:42 ` John Cowan
2020-07-05 21:04 ` Clem Cole
2020-07-05 21:14 ` Dan Cross
2020-06-24 16:51 ` Anthony Martin
2020-06-24 17:31 ` Anthony Martin
2020-06-24 18:31 ` Paul Ruizendaal
2020-06-25 0:56 ` Rob Gingell via TUHS
2020-06-24 19:05 ` Paul Ruizendaal
2020-06-24 20:27 ` Derek Fawcus
2020-06-24 21:33 ` Greg A. Woods
2020-06-25 0:45 ` Adam Thornton
2020-06-25 19:40 ` Greg A. Woods
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