[OSX-Users] Re: OS X Lion preview

[Les A Carr]

On 03/07/2011 13:56, "Philip Boulain" <prb at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:

>* While I've argued for this as a way Computers Should Have Been,
>somewhat influenced by a classic PalmOS PDA that actually works like a
>paper notepad in that once I write a character on it, it will be there
>waiting for after I turn it off and on again, for the more complex
>editing tasks of desktop use I can't see this being anything but a
>nightmare without strong versioning, branching, and tagging support
>underlying it.

You're too young to have used a Proper Computer with Versioning. I seem to
remember that it was a bl??dy nightmare. You used to spend all your time
manually deleting versions to get your filespace back.

The Mac filesystem* does have very sophisticated metadata facilities - its
just that no applications or frameworks really put them to much use.
--
Les

*As does the Windows filesystem