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| From | John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.folklore.computers |
| Subject | Re: Who introduced named files? |
| Date | 2020-06-11 17:15 +0000 |
| Organization | Taughannock Networks |
| Message-ID | <rbtosd$1hjr$1@gal.iecc.com> (permalink) |
| References | <rbtan8$tqk$3@newsreader4.netcologne.de> |
In article <rbtan8$tqk$3@newsreader4.netcologne.de>, Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> wrote: >I've been looking around a bit, but I cannot find which operating >system introduced named files. Good question. CTSS had named files, I think in 1962. Named files almost certainly predate disks. IBM operating systems had (still have, I guess) an elaborate system for naming files on magtapes. On OS you could put tape files in the catalog, just like disk files, and if a job called for a file on a tape, it would tell the operator to mount the tape. Poking around at bitsavers, I see that the 7070 had tapes labelled with filenames by 1960 and I presume it had named files when it had disks or drums, too. -- Regards, John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly
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