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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.