Re: Persistence and Transactions

[keith@Uniteq.COM (Keith Hankin)]

> From Eng.Sun.COM!David.Ungar@netcomsv.netcom.com Fri Aug 28 11:42:19 1992
> Date: Fri, 28 Aug 92 11:16:14 PDT
> From: Eng.Sun.COM!David.Ungar@netcomsv.netcom.com (Dave Ungar)
> To: self-interest@self.stanford.edu, keith@Uniteq.COM
> Subject: Re: Persistence and Transactions
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> Nothing concrete, I'm afraid. We mull it over from time to time.
> Why?
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
> 
> > Are there plans for providing object persistence and transactions?
> > Snapshots are very limited in that the entire environment is saved.
> > In order to be able to provide applications that have saveable state,
> > are reliable, and that support multiple-user sharing of objects, persistence
> > and transaction management should be an integral part of the Self environment.
> > 
> > 
> 

Our company is doing object persistence and transactions for our system and
I thought it would be nice to have a language that supports it more directly
than the kludge-arounds that have to be done for C/C++.