Sharing code and objects across systems doesn't imply the need for a file
system.  What do you store in a file system if not files?  Perhaps "object
system" would be a better term, as what we want to store are objects.
Perhaps "distributed object database"?

Re Self: self was/is a minimalist object-oriented language which descended
from Smalltalk.  Because of its minimalist approach (minimal in terms of
syntax and bytecodes - I think I remember the Self VM only had seven byte
codes) the developers had to come up with very fast on-the-fly translation
to native code to get it to perform reasonably well.  It was originally
developed at one of the Bay Area universities, I think (Stanford?), and
eventually became a SunLabs project.  The Self developers went on to found a
company called Animorphic Systems to commercialize their dynamic code
generation technology, which was acquired by Sun, and has now been used to
develop the newest Java VM.

There's others on this list who know a whole lot more about Self than I do.
Hopefully they'll speak up.

Bob Jarvis
Compuware @ Timken

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Mayuresh A Kathe [SMTP:mayuresh at vsnl.com]
> Sent:	Tuesday, February 15, 2000 9:50 AM
> To:	squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
> Subject:	Re: Common Internet File System?
> 
> Yes I agree regarding the sheepskin thing.
> 
> But what I was really wanting was some way to share code and objects
> across
> systems around the net without having to file-out and in.
> 
> BTW what is this Self thing, I am a newbie to Smalltalk.
> 
> --
> Mayuresh A Kathe
> Think Different. Think Better.
> mayuresh at vsnl.com
> 
> ----------
> >From: "Jarvis, Robert P. (Contingent)" <Jarvisb at timken.com>
> >To: "'squeak at cs.uiuc.edu'" <squeak at cs.uiuc.edu>
> >Subject: RE: Common Internet File System?
> >Date: Tue, Feb 15, 2000, 6:54 PM
> >
> 
> > After looking at the web page you cited I'm left with a feeling that
> CIFS is
> > just the same old wolf under a new sheepskin.  File access across the
> net is
> > all very well and good if all you want to do is access files.  I don't
> > think, however, that file access is all that interesting (to me, at
> least)
> > in a Squeak/Smalltalk context.  I think Eric's ideas about image
> > coordination are more interesting.  I also think that a netcentric
> object
> > "space" or, if you will, a "virtual image" is yet more interesting.  (I
> > believe Self had something like this).
> >
> > Bob Jarvis
> > Compuware @ Timken
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Mayuresh A Kathe [SMTP:mayuresh at vsnl.com]
> >> Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2000 11:21 AM
> >> To: squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
> >> Subject: Re: Common Internet File System?
> >>
> >> Hi Eric, you have been able to understand most of what I have wanted to
> >> express and thanks for making them so clear for Charles.
> >>
> >> What I had in mind is something like Windows File Sharing, the only
> >> difference being that users should be able to share files across the
> >> internet since CIFS is based on TCP/IP.
> >>
> >
> >