From: arnold@skeeve.com (arnold@skeeve.com)
Subject: [TUHS] NFS aka the guy who brought up SVr4 on Sun machines
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 20:40:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201701110340.v0B3e0Wt007097@freefriends.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9f7dc170-ba5b-c503-aed8-55855e494a8f@mhorton.net>
Mary Ann Horton <mah at mhorton.net> wrote:
> As I recall, RFS was implemented over virtual circuits, whereas NFS was
> over datagrams (UDP). RFS was well suited to Datakit, which only did
> virtual circuits, and they often were used together inside Bell Labs.
> One of the reasons NFS won is that IP won over Datakit.
I think another reason is that AT&T got a lot more, er, "difficult"
about its licensing come SVR3, which introduced RFS. Many of the major
UNIX vendors (IBM, DEC, HP) didn't bother to license it. As most of them
already had NFS, it wasn't worth the trouble.
SunOS 4.0 had RFS. I think early versions of 4.1 did, but I'm pretty
sure that by 4.1.3 SunOS had removed it.
Arnold
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-11 3:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-10 20:33 Doug McIlroy
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 [this message]
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