Peter Foldiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

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> Perhaps a better way to think about this is that instead of talking
> about directories and files, we just talk about objects.

Then you have a collection of interrelated objects, i.e., a database.
Operating systems that work on databases (no filesystem) have been done,
and are a nice idea... but are far, far away from Unix.
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