On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 7:30 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@lemis.com> wrote:
On Saturday,  9 September 2017 at 13:16:30 +1200, Wesley Parish wrote:
> 'fraid so. The Unix directory structure and the correlating
> free-form file competed with the file-as- record-structure and
> directory-as-record-structure in the seventies and eighties. The
> competition had finished by the nineties, and hardly anybody
> remembers it now.

Sorry, I don't understand this.  Can you give an example of
file-as-record and directory-as-record?  Some of it suggests MVS, but
not quite.

See VMS's RMS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Record_Management_Services for a representative competitor. 

Warner