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File system fables
posted on 18 March 2008 06:58
Terrific account of file system history
PC technology website Ars Technica has a great history of file systems. The story begins with the very first minicomputer, the PDP 8 and its tape-based file sysyem. It moves on to the PC and its rudimentary floppy disk-based file system and then the flowering of Microsoft and Unix.
You can read the series of six or so pages - 6,500+ words - with illustrations at Ars Technica.
[Majid Soltani.]
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