From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: nobozo@gmail.com (Jon Forrest) Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 13:52:23 -0700 Subject: [TUHS] RFS was: Re: UNIX of choice these days? In-Reply-To: References: <201709270844.v8R8i2kd021180@freefriends.org> <201709281349.v8SDnHp2005910@freefriends.org> <20170928222056.GD28606@mcvoy.com> Message-ID: <1e860e57-bf9d-4945-8c2f-c518cc6f11aa@gmail.com> On 9/29/2017 12:19 PM, Dan Cross wrote: > We had a setup on Sun's running SunOS 4.1.x that I actually really > liked; I believe it was referred to as "dataless". [...] > It was a really nice, comfortable system. Of course, it wouldn't fly > in this day and age for security and other reasons but back in the > early 90s it was great. I agree 100%. I created such an environment on DEC's OSF/1 running on Alphas (c. f. A Dataless Environment in OSF/1, Digital Systems Journal - Nov. 1994) when I worked in the CS department at UC Berkeley. Plus, the CS department itself ran a big Auspex server that made it possible to create an ad-hoc dataless environment. At the time, a 600MB disk drive was considered large. Putting all the read-only stuff on a server made lots of sense. Of course, it required a reasonably fast network connection, but with 100Mbs networks starting to get cheap at that time, that wasn't a big deal. Jon Forrest UC Berkeley (ret.)