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Subject: Re: [TUHS] VFS prior to 1984
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Pr1me had remote filesystems circa 1981 at least, maybe even earlier.
It was quite transparent, something equivalent to //node/path/to/file.

I only ever used Primos through the Georgia Tech Software Tools Subsytem
which made the filesystem look Unix-y. I don't know any more details.

HTH,

Arnold