Paul Ruizendaal <pnr(a)planet.nl> wrote:
Related is the question when the "file system
switch" was added. It must
have been later than 1981 and before 1985, but I have not been able to
pinpoint it further.
IIRC there was a "paper" (only an abstract) on the file system
switch published in a USENIX conference proceedings. That woud help
trace it down.
Peter Weinberger, who did it, is at Google; you could ask him
directly, as well.
Arnold