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by Osmium 794 days ago
It was profoundly different. This is all a matter of public record of course, Ars Technica had a very good write up on it at the time it happened.

HFS+ was the legacy file system, from 1998, itself based on HFS from 1985. APFS was a wholly new, modern filesystem and quite radically different.

Filesystem experts please correct me.