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I am so confused. File systems or filesystems? I do not recall anything in my AT&T days referred to as "filesystems". when I read the article I was expecting

I am so confused. File systems or filesystems? I do not recall anything in my AT&T days referred to as "filesystems". when I read the article I was expecting mentions of CP/M, Files-11, TOPS-10, UFS, VSAM, ISAM, BDAM, FAT? MFS for Macs showed up in 1984, Amiga's OFS followed. I mean, not even UFS, which showed up in the 70s, yet still had impact on ext and NTFS... I was trying to see if this article was about history of file systemS from the 70s to through the 80s, or just a single file system's evolution; alas I could not tell.

lproven 2y ago
I think you did not read it closely enough. The article says right at the top that it is part 2 in a series, and that part 1 was 1974, with a link. That Part 1 discussed UFS in depth. The point being that (1) by 1984 UFS was far from state of the art and (2) you need to understand the 50 year old SOTA to understand what was different in the 40YO SOTA.
unwind 2y ago
The two spellings are the same. First sentence from the Wikipedia entry [1]: In computing, a file system or filesystem (often abbreviated to FS or fs) governs file organization and access. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_system