[Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst

[Tuomas J. Lukka]

CVSROOT:        /cvsroot/gzz
Module name:    manuscripts
Branch:         
Changes by:     Tuomas J. Lukka <address@hidden>        03/11/10 04:28:03

Modified files:
        pointers       : article.rst 

Log message:
        Don't confugse API and proto; tighten firstclass

CVSWeb URLs:
http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/gzz/manuscripts/pointers/article.rst.diff?tr1=1.191&tr2=1.192&r1=text&r2=text

Patches:
Index: manuscripts/pointers/article.rst
diff -u manuscripts/pointers/article.rst:1.191 
manuscripts/pointers/article.rst:1.192
--- manuscripts/pointers/article.rst:1.191      Mon Nov 10 04:25:53 2003
+++ manuscripts/pointers/article.rst    Mon Nov 10 04:28:03 2003
@@ -399,10 +399,10 @@
 peer-to-peer network; this could be a DHT, a flooding broadcasting
 network like Gnutella [gnutellaurl]_, or any other P2P architecture.
 
-Contrary to other systems, our
-system treats pointer records as *first-class citizens*;
+Contrary to other systems, 
+pointer records are treated as *first-class citizens*;
 pointer records
-are treated just as normal data files 
+are simply normal data files 
 and may reside on (and be downloaded from) any host.
 For example, a filesharing system could, for every versioned 
 file ``f``, store two companion files ``f.version`` 
@@ -639,14 +639,14 @@
 
    -- XXX we don't distribute anything yet
 
-Storm provides implementations of the block/pool abstraction
+Our prototype provides implementations of the block/pool abstraction
 and of reverse indexing for both local storage
 and distribution through the GISP DHT [kato02gisp]_.
-Our API is sufficiently abstract that different overlays
+The API is sufficiently abstract that different overlays
 could easily be plugged in; we're currently looking
 into writing an implementation based on Tapestry [zhao01tapestry]_.
 
-The P2P Web created by Storm is browsable through an
+The P2P Web created by our prototype is browsable through an
 HTTP gateway, which can be run locally or offered for
 public access. The HTTP gateway can be configured to
 insert on each HTML page a "history" link, which allows the user