From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: doug@cs.dartmouth.edu (Doug McIlroy) Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 15:33:57 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] NFS aka the guy who brought up SVr4 on Sun machines Message-ID: <201701102033.v0AKXvrc018898@coolidge.cs.Dartmouth.EDU> 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