On 2010-03-03, D'Arcy J.M. Cain <da...@druid.net> wrote: > On Wed, 3 Mar 2010 15:05:54 +0000 (UTC) > Grant Edwards <inva...@invalid.invalid> wrote: >> > It was actually an improvement over CP/M's file >> > system. CP/M didn't have hierarchical directories >> >> Neither did the original MS-DOS filesystem. > > I think that it always had a hierarchical file system
The hierarchical file system wasn't introduced until MS-DOS 2.0. Versions prior to that were flat filesystem just like CP/M. >From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table At the time FAT12 was introduced, DOS did not support hierarchical directories, and the maximum number of files was typically limited to a few dozen. Hierarchical directories were introduced in MS-DOS version 2.0. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! I wonder if I could at ever get started in the gmail.com credit world? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list