> Ron Ford wrote:
> (snip)
>

>> I'm given to understand that data structures on Turing-complete machines
>> are somehow all the same. Glen mentioned that the directory
>> structure--folders--for the original apples was flat, as opposed to the
>> tree I think of when I think of a directory.

>
>
> The original MacOS when they only used floppies or small
> hard disks.
>
> The file system for OS/360, and still used with the
> successors to OS/360, uses a flat 44 character name space.
> It is normally divided up with somewhat like group.username.filename
> (Newer systems use both hierarchical (unix like) file system
> and the MVS file system at the same time.)
>
> -- glen
>