From: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
To: Dan Cross <crossd@gmail.com>
Cc: Douglas McIlroy <douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu>,
The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: NFS 40th anniversary event
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2025 08:56:48 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250813155648.GA25260@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEoi9W46uvjWtpTG-qP_EtdBQLzA0+0VmHJK+p8WxEOzWyfhGQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Aug 13, 2025 at 10:18:34AM -0400, Dan Cross wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2025 at 10:00???AM Douglas McIlroy
> <douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu> wrote:
> > I was always sorry that Peter Weinberger's RFS never made it outside
> > Bell Labs. It allowed networking between separately administered
> > systems by mapping UIDs.
>
> I believe it did? If I recall correctly, it was available with System
> V, though perhaps I am misremembering.
Sunos had it, my office mate ported it. I was unimpressed, it worked well
between the same archs but was riddled with byte order problems and
ioctl calls that were not portable.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-08-13 15:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-08-13 0:59 [TUHS] NFS 40th anniversary event Tom Lyon
2025-08-13 1:55 ` [TUHS] " Larry McVoy
2025-08-13 3:05 ` Dave Horsfall
2025-08-13 5:59 ` [TUHS] Greetings! Phillip Harbison
2025-08-13 14:00 ` [TUHS] Re: NFS 40th anniversary event Douglas McIlroy
2025-08-13 14:18 ` Dan Cross
2025-08-13 14:59 ` arnold
2025-08-13 15:26 ` Douglas McIlroy
2025-08-13 15:34 ` arnold
2025-08-13 15:47 ` Martin Schröder
2025-08-14 3:43 ` arnold
2025-08-13 15:56 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2025-08-13 16:24 ` Peter Weinberger (温博格) via TUHS
2025-08-13 16:43 ` Tom Lyon
2025-08-13 17:27 ` Larry McVoy
2025-08-13 20:24 ` Will Senn
2025-08-14 1:41 ` Bakul Shah via TUHS
2025-08-14 2:04 ` Tom Lyon
2025-08-14 0:31 ` Jonathan Gray
2025-08-14 0:54 ` Charles H. Sauer (he/him)
2025-08-14 1:28 ` Rich Salz
2025-08-14 1:29 ` Tom Lyon
2025-08-13 17:08 ` [TUHS] RFS Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
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