Grant Edwards wrote:
> I guess I've been using Unix for too long (almost 30 years). I don't
> think I was consciously aware of a "one file, one name" paradigm. Is
> that a characteristic of Dos, Windows or Mac filesystems?
Older and simpler filesystems used to combine the naming with the space
allocation. CP/M, and (IIRC) the GE/Honeywell mainframe systems I used to
work with. MS-DOS FAT filesystems might have supported multi-names but
refused to administer them before long filenames were implemented as special
cases. I first ran into multi-names on Multics, where the Volume Table of
Contents controlled disk space allocation and directories provided name-
keyed access to the VTOC entries. Pretty much as Linux does now with
directories and inodes.
Mel.
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