From: doug@cs.dartmouth.edu (Doug McIlroy)
Subject: [TUHS] NFS aka the guy who brought up SVr4 on Sun machines
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 15:33:57 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201701102033.v0AKXvrc018898@coolidge.cs.Dartmouth.EDU> (raw)
Reputed origins of SVR4:
> From SunOS:
> ...
> NFS
And, sadly, NFS is still with us, having somehow upstaged Peter
Weinberger's RFS (R for remote) that appeared at the same time.
NFS allows one to add computers to a file system, but not to
combine the file systems of multiple computers, as RFS did
by mapping uids: NFS:RFS::LAN:WAN.
Doug
next reply other threads:[~2017-01-10 20:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-10 20:33 Doug McIlroy [this message]
2017-01-10 21:40 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-10 21:43 ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-11 0:56 ` Steve Simon
2017-01-11 3:17 ` Mary Ann Horton
2017-01-11 3:32 ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-11 3:40 ` arnold
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