From: David Presotto <presotto@closedmind.org>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] is plan 9 based on XML?
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 08:01:30 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83653bd32ffffbb975cd81818a419455@plan9.bell-labs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <378214d4b24f870a683cd4d88ea5b009@collyer.net>
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I used CTSS in the 1971/72, my first year at MIT. They gave undergrads spare
time accounts on any systems there. It was at the end of its life, was way
overloaded, and ran on a 7094 that stuck around for quite a few years later.
It didn't have a hierarchical file system per se. Just a single level of
directories. I can't remember how you named an other user's directory
or even the system one.
Multics fixed that and added much more.
So, I went to see what I could find on the web...
http://larch-www.lcs.mit.edu:8001/~corbato/turing91
is a nice read.
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From: Geoff Collyer <geoff@collyer.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] is plan 9 based on XML?
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 01:00:04 -0800
Message-ID: <378214d4b24f870a683cd4d88ea5b009@collyer.net>
A google search turned up this claim at
http://turing.cs.camosun.bc.ca/comp112/notes/chapter5.html:
Among the first such systems (if not the first) was MIT's CTSS
(Corbató et. al) implemented on an IBM 7090. This was also the
first system to implement a hierarchical file store (i.e. one
with directories - aka folders - and files with them)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-26 13:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-26 1:19 dmr
2004-03-26 8:46 ` C H Forsyth
2004-03-26 9:00 ` Geoff Collyer
2004-03-26 13:01 ` David Presotto [this message]
2004-03-26 13:05 ` rog
2004-03-26 9:05 ` [9fans] hierarchical filesystems for non-file things? David Tolpin
2004-03-26 12:35 ` David Presotto
2004-03-27 13:04 ` boyd, rounin
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2004-03-27 1:57 [9fans] is plan 9 based on XML? dmr
2004-03-25 20:31 Ben Salzman
2004-03-25 20:34 ` ron minnich
2004-03-25 20:46 ` Ben Salzman
2004-03-26 14:22 ` Michael Jeffrey
2004-03-25 23:43 ` Geoff Collyer
2004-03-26 5:46 ` David Tolpin
2004-03-26 9:32 ` Bruce Ellis
2004-03-26 9:45 ` David Tolpin
2004-03-26 12:45 ` Bruce Ellis
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