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From: jlw@yarra.oz.au (John Webb)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: chdir is a loser (?)
Summary: pathnames
Message-ID: <1189@yarra.oz.au>
Date: 7 Feb 90 07:00:54 GMT
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In article <GUMBY.90Feb6131533@Gang-of-Four.Stanford.EDU>, gumby@Gang-of-Four.Stanford.EDU (David Vinayak Wallace) writes:
> 
> Stuff deleted
> 
> I believe (but am not sure) that Multics was the first system with
> pathnames; but certainly by 1966 the idea of connected directory
> should have been on the way out.
> 
Honeywell's file management system on the 6000, the successor to
GE's 600, known as FMS, used catalog/file strings, equivalent to pathnames.
Multics began to grow out of the operating system (GECOS) and FMS.