filenames and the kernel

[Scott Amspoker]

In article <-5G1KF6xds13 at ficc.uu.net> peter at ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
>In article <17829 at rpp386.cactus.org> jfh at rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II) writes:
>> Early MS-DOS and CP/M didn't include directories.  Nor do many old versions
>> of TRS-DOS.
>
>But they did include the concept of a "current directory", the current drive,
>which was inherited by programs running in the TPA. The thrust of the original
>poster's argument seemed to be that the "current directory" or "default
>directory" or "current volume" was a mistake.

About the time I stopped using CP/M (years ago) it started supporting
a thing call "user number" which, I believe, gave some of the
functionality of multiple directories on a single disk.

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