[TUHS] Quick Question: Early Filesystems and Name/Metadata Separation?

[Paul McJones via TUHS]

> On 15 Sep 2025 21:40:06 -0700,Bakul Shah <bakul at iitbombay.org> wrote:
> 
> In case anyone is further interested in Strachey & Stoy's OS6....
> 
> https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/files/3230/PRG08.pdf
> 
> Excerpt:
> A single file may be associated with different pairs of
> names in different indexes, or even in the same index. This is
> one form of sharing of files: two different entries point to the
> same file.

Perhaps also of interest:

Christopher Strachey and Joseph Stoy. The text of OS6Pub.
PRG-09, Programming Research Group, Oxford University Computer Laboratory, July 1972.
http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/files/3231/PRG09.pdf

Christopher Strachey and Joseph Stoy. The text of OS6Pub (Commentary).
PRG-09 (c), Programming Research Group, Oxford University Computer Laboratory, July 1972.
https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/files/4632/PRG-9%28c%29.pdf