From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Feb 19 21:23:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from homer.softweyr.com (bsdconspiracy.net [208.187.122.220]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EB1337B401 for ; Mon, 19 Feb 2001 21:20:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=softweyr.com ident=Fools trust ident!) by homer.softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 14V5Ms-0000oV-00; Mon, 19 Feb 2001 22:29:43 -0700 Message-ID: <3A9200C6.AA3C8433@softweyr.com> Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 22:29:42 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group Cc: Cedric Berger , Terry Lambert , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DJBDNS vs. BIND References: <200102200227.f1K2RHv02933@cwsys.cwsent.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote: > > In message <3A91CE37.F8C3FE80@wireless-networks.com>, Cedric Berger > writes: > > Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > > A registry-like configuration store, which was cached by the OS, > > > and was referenced directly each time the data was needed, instead > > > of allowing the programs to cache data which might change would > > > really be the best approach, but I rather think that it would be > > > rejected because Microsoft had the idea. > > > > Microsoft??? the idea of registry??? > > If I remember my old university days, our VAX 11/780 had something > > very simmilar... > > That makes sense. Dave Cutler, chief NT architect, worked on VMS for > DEC. VMS had nothing remotely like the Windows Registry. Configuration data on VMS was mostly stored in the form of "logical names", which are sort of like persistent environment variables with different namespaces (per system, per group, and per user). -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message