The Number of Files
in a Computer
Murat Yildirimoglu, 10/16/2007
I find the number of the files on a typical computer very
annoying. There are more than a hundred thousand files on a typical computer.
This excessive number of files causes many problems: To move or copy or scan
these files takes too much time.
What will be a solution?
I think we are already familiar with a solution. You remember
the Xbase languages and their files I think: There were .dbf files, .dbt files,
ndx files, prg files, etc… After that, there came Microsoft Access. In Acces we
have a single file, an .mdb file. All the tables, indexes, forms, programs
reside in that single file.
Likewise all the files of a program may reside in a single
“hyperfile”, I think. This hyperfile may contain executables, dlls, pictures,
audio and video information, etc.. By doing so, we will have managable, high
performance system.