From: Sylvain Bouju (sylvain.bouju_at_free.fr)
Date: Mon May 10 2004 - 13:25:34 PDT
Richard G. DAVIS a écrit le 10/05/04 21:46:
> In classical systems, application programs must first open and read from
> files into some intermediate storage to get the data they will manipulate
> into some form that the programs can use. This intermediate storage is
> temporary, and is discarded when the running program is terminated. This
> creates an increase in memory requirements, and produces other overhead
> expenses.
>
> In the Newton, memory conservation was a paramount consideration, so the
> soup concept was easily embraced be the Newton designers.
I have not understand many things in all your message,
but I feel in these above words something similar to the way
of HyperCard works with his stacks (permanently auto saving),
in opposition with other programs who need a final "Save"
in order to valid the work...?
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