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minus-squareMechanicalJester@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoThe OS had a filesystem with an efficient database. Every search was super fast, regardless of how many files it had.
minus-squaremarv99@feddit.deOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-21 year agoDo you mean that the filesystem itself had optimization so that searching from the command line (find, grep) was fast? Or do you think more into the direction of the desktop apps Finder and Librarian? At least I remember the Librarian.app was great for indexing and quickly searching through large amount of texts (from various formats).
The OS had a filesystem with an efficient database. Every search was super fast, regardless of how many files it had.
Do you mean that the filesystem itself had optimization so that searching from the command line (
find,grep) was fast?Or do you think more into the direction of the desktop apps Finder and Librarian?
At least I remember the Librarian.app was great for indexing and quickly searching through large amount of texts (from various formats).