What Tunes will do for you

This page ought to contain examples and wishes about what Tunes should actually do as a better computing system.

It's a new page in there, so please excuse its still being a draft. Please also do send in your wishes for a new system...

In a first part, we present examples of conceptual differences which make Tunes a completely different system from existing ones.
In a second part, we'd like to include real-life examples, that should should be as realistic and precise as possible.


General design

Tunes will be a fine-grained system.

Tunes will be a decentralized system.
Tunes will be a distributed,
Tunes will be a persistent system.
Tunes will be a unified system
Tunes will be a secure system
Tunes will be a system resilient to network failures.


Complete examples

  • A compact disk database


    To Do on this page

  • Produce a table of contents (TOC)
  • Add lots and lots of examples.
  • Add pointers to other example pages.
  • Find a suitable format for OS comparisons
  • translate my existing examples from French to English...
  • Point from example points to theoretical points, and conversely.


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    Page Maintainer:
    Faré -- rideau@clipper.ens.fr