[TUHS] VFS prior to 1984

Paul Ruizendaal pnr at planet.nl
Tue Jun 30 00:53:50 AEST 2020


> On 29 Jun 2020, at 16:45, Larry McVoy <lm at 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"?


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