On Friday 12 March 2010 11:29:20 pm Eliot Miranda wrote:
I'm sure Im opening an old topic but anyway, as I was riding the train to work today I saw a shop called "Audio Images" and it struck me how overloaded the term image is, and how poor a term for the contents of the image file Smalltalk image is. What's in the image is a snapshot of... almost the entire system (minus platform-specific virtual machine and possibly minus sources). So Smalltalk system file would be a far better term and stsys a more unique file extension (and according to Wikipedia STS is unused too).
If ever we change the image format, we should also change its name and extension. The first time people hear the term, they think of 'picture'. I suppose the term image is a Mac hangover :-). I prefer "bit bag" (*.bag) or "bag of bits" (*.bob). BTW, sts is already taken (Microsoft Visual C) Subbu