Basically the author is calling for a return to the Multics file system, where files were just a way of referring to capability-managed subsets of an enormous pool of pages.
I liked the idea the first time around so I like it again. But it's harder than it sounds.
I find something lovely and poetic in the fact that Lisp is over 50 years old and Multics is almost that old, and both may be having a bit of a renaissance.
I liked the idea the first time around so I like it again. But it's harder than it sounds.
I find something lovely and poetic in the fact that Lisp is over 50 years old and Multics is almost that old, and both may be having a bit of a renaissance.