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No. Thompson and Ritchie borrowed that from Multics, see section 2.2 of https://multicians.org/fjcc4.html https://multicians.org/fjcc4.html My guess would be M
by bediger4000 2y ago
No. Thompson and Ritchie borrowed that from Multics, see section 2.2 of https://multicians.org/fjcc4.html https://multicians.org/fjcc4.html
My guess would be Microsoft inherited device rooted filesystems from CP/M.
They could have transitioned to single root filesystems with NT in the early 1990s.
- pjmlp 2y agoThere are plenty of other OSes since the 1950's, even if the idea already existed in Multics, and the large majority of those weren't into single file system camp. There are even those whose filesystem is based on a database model instead.