Linked lists go back a long way. FAT is one, in a sense. DECtape file systems for DOS (also RSTS) are linked, in the blocks. The same goes for the CDC 6000 file system (more precisely, it has contiguous blocks within a track, and links from the last block in the track to the next track number).
paul > On Apr 9, 2021, at 12:27 AM, Richard Sheppard via cctalk > <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > I believe the original Amiga file system also used a linked-list approach. > That way you could, theoretically, reconstruct a file from any one of it’s > data blocks. > Richard > > Sent from Mail for Windows 10 >