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From: Geoff Collyer <geoff@collyer.net>
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Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 15:43:14 -0800
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I think that hierarchical file systems are a form of Rorschach
ink-blot.  What a person sees in them tells us more about the person
than the idea.  In 1980, I was describing the Unix file system to a
supervisor who hadn't heard of it and he said `oh, it sounds like a
database system'.

When did the first hierarchical file system appear?  Multics?  CTSS?