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Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2020 10:31:49 -0700
From: Anthony Martin <ality@pbrane.org>
To: Paul Ruizendaal <pnr@planet.nl>
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The only other prior art I know of is

  Toda, I. W. A. O. (1980). DCNA higher level protocols. IEEE
  Transactions on Communications, 28(4), 575-584.

wherein they state the following:

  A virtual file system, from the viewpoint of application programs on a
  computer, models the file system functions of other computers. This is
  done in the same way as with virtual terminals, a virtual file system
  consists of a UPP having virtual files (VF), and a UCP which executes
  virtual file system protocols.

I'd be interested if you find anything earlier.

  Anthony