Re: encapsulating directory operations

"David Brown" <david.brown@hesbynett.no> wrote in message
news:100ia33$2ae8t$1@dont-email.me...

Sorry, I snipped too hard.

Telling us that you are doing all this to be "apocalypse-ready" simply

This is the one that I should have said was a joke.

access, and dropped the bizarre doomsday philosophy.

This one is more complicated.

There may be a reason - even if I can't specifically point to it -
to use low powered, low-memory devices.

There are others who seem to genuinely believe that that's
what our future holds, like this guy:

https://collapseos.org/

with links to others saying that what we're currently doing
can't last, like this:

https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2011/10/the-energy-trap/

I haven't read very much of it, and I'm not saying it is true.
I just have an interest in "minimal computing" for such a
scenario (or other scenarios - like North Korea attempting
to build their own computers as part of their "juche"
philosophy).

I'm not willing to change my coding style though, so at
the moment I basically quote that I need 2 MiB of
memory, so my own OS can only kick in after others
have brought technology up to the IBM PC AT level.

So the Norks will need to get to that point first.

I bought a Zhaoxin processor so that I could see what
the Chicoms are capable of. I'm using it right now and
it's perfectly capable (not good value for money though).

I'd love to try out an African-made processor too. I'm
not aware of any. If the whole world was to disappear
except for Africa, and they were forced to make their
own processors - no matter what the cost - what
could they come up with? I'm not expecting that to
happen. The theoretical situation just interests me. In
fact - making sure Africans are trained to make
processors and maintain PDOS is something that
interests me. Just for the sake of it.

Some people pointlessly climb Mt Everest too.
Different people have different hobbies. So be it.

BFN. Paul.