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Ghosts of Unix Past: a historical search for design patterns (lwn.net)
46 points by ra on Nov 25, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments



Part 2 of the article is here: http://lwn.net/Articles/412131/


Part 4 http://lwn.net/Articles/416814/ (but not freely available till Dec 2, unless a subscriber chooses to share it)



Tiny nitpick: CP/M had a fixed, two-level hierarchy with 16 different areas of the disk, accessible via the "user" command.




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