How did we get saddled with the (hierarchical) filesystem as the basic data structure?
- by user1936
I'm self-taught and I don't have a CS degree. The more I've been learning about data structure, the more I wonder, in this day and age, how are we still saddled with the filesystem, with directories and files, as the basic data storage structure on the OS?
I understand the simplicity of it, but it seems nowadays that there could be more options…