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Subject: Re: [TUHS] VFS prior to 1984
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Redirected to COFF, since this isn't very TUHS related.

Richard Salz wrote:
> Noel Chiappa wote:
>> MLDEV on ITS would, I think, fit under that description.
>> I don't know if there's a paper on it; it's mid-70's.

I don't think there's anything like an academic paper.

The earliest evidence I found for the MLDEV facility, or a predecessor,
is from 1972:
https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/13709/what-are-some-early-network-file-systems

> A web search for "its mldev" finds several things (mostly by Lars Brinkhoff
> it seems) , including
> https://github.com/larsbrinkhoff/mldev/blob/master/doc/mldev.protoc

That's just a copy I made.