Abstract: Apparatus for electronic data storage, including a non-volatile memory, adapted to receive a succession of data blocks for storage at respective locations therein. The apparatus includes a controller which is configured to convey the succession of data blocks to the non-volatile memory, while writing to the non-volatile memory, together with at least some of the data blocks, a pointer value to the location of a subsequent data block in the succession. The apparatus preferably includes services that are usually performed by higher level file systems, such as allocation and deletion of blocks. Furthermore, the apparatus facilitates stable storage operations so that block contents are maintained intact in case of a write failure.

Abstract: A programming aid for generating interface definition files for client server programs. The system and method are responsive to an input interface definition file and one or more input source code files to extract, from one such input source code file, the semantics of procedures therein intended to be called by a remote procedure call, to detect any conflicts between the extracted semantics and the input interface definition file, to generate an output interface definition file and to report said conflicts to a user. The user can thereby develop a correct interface definition file through an iterative process by modifying the output interface definition file and using it again as the input interface definition file.