chdir is a loser (?)
John Webb
jlw at yarra.oz.au
Wed Feb 7 18:00:54 AEST 1990
In article <GUMBY.90Feb6131533 at Gang-of-Four.Stanford.EDU>, gumby at Gang-of-Four.Stanford.EDU (David Vinayak Wallace) writes:
>
> Stuff deleted
>
> I believe (but am not sure) that Multics was the first system with
> pathnames; but certainly by 1966 the idea of connected directory
> should have been on the way out.
>
Honeywell's file management system on the 6000, the successor to
GE's 600, known as FMS, used catalog/file strings, equivalent to pathnames.
Multics began to grow out of the operating system (GECOS) and FMS.
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