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How to refer to the MacOS file paradigm?
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Is there an accepted term for the MacOS document/file paradigm.
I'm talking about the standard concept where an application like iWork can open multiple documents at once and save them to the users desired location.
Not the Bento scenario where all of the data lives in one hidden place.
Is there a name for this?
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Last edited by Tee; Sep 9, 2010 at 01:15 PM.
Reason: spelling)
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Maybe a user-managed file system, or something like that?
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An hierarchical file system?
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Originally Posted by reader50 
An hierarchical file system?
Maybe.
But doesn't that refer to the low level disk structure rather than the user level interface?
And even in a set-up like iTunes or Bento where the user is not given any real choice about how and where the file are kept, the underlying files still certainly have a hierarchical layout on the disk.
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The file system is hierarchial. The presentation in the Finder is either in a browser or in spatial windows.
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The new Mac Pro has up to 30 MB of cache inside the processor itself. That's more than the HD in my first Mac. Somehow I'm still running out of space.
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So, how would we describe the difference between how iWork handles documents versus Bento...
In both cases the file system is still hierarchical and the Finder is still spatial...
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iWork is document centric. Bento is application centric.
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Operating systems use a document metaphor where a single document is the equivalent of a paper document. Databases, however, are not as simple, as they contain information which may be updated piece by piece. A database is to a document as a Rolodex is to a single address card.
(That started out sounding much better than it ended up...)
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Actually, a filesystem can be said to be a database, so if the filesystem is a Rolodex with with address cards, then the Bento database is a second Rolodex inside the bigger Rolodex.
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The new Mac Pro has up to 30 MB of cache inside the processor itself. That's more than the HD in my first Mac. Somehow I'm still running out of space.
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Originally Posted by chabig
iWork is document centric. Bento is application centric.
Exactly what is stated here. Apple pushes document centric applications as hard as they can, this is in contrast to Microsoft, where the application is the focus. It's the real difference IMHO between the OSes and how they interact with the user. Ars has a really nice write up about this:
Paradigms lost: The Windows 7 Taskbar versus the OS X Dock
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