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From: mah@mhorton.net (Mary Ann Horton)
Subject: [TUHS] NFS aka the guy who brought up SVr4 on Sun machines
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 19:17:20 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9f7dc170-ba5b-c503-aed8-55855e494a8f@mhorton.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E2C48D73-3F63-489E-B14F-F2BFA0768AC5@quintile.net>

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As I recall, RFS was implemented over virtual circuits, whereas NFS was 
over datagrams (UDP).  RFS was well suited to Datakit, which only did 
virtual circuits, and they often were used together inside Bell Labs.  
One of the reasons NFS won is that IP won over Datakit.


On 01/10/2017 04:56 PM, Steve Simon wrote:
> There is also RFS, I think a USG package for SYSVr3. The paper I have
> About this is by Author L Sabsevitz, though I don’t know if he was the author
> of the code, or just the paper.
>
>



  reply	other threads:[~2017-01-11  3:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-10 20:33 Doug McIlroy
2017-01-10 21:40 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-10 21:43   ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-11  0:56     ` Steve Simon
2017-01-11  3:17       ` Mary Ann Horton [this message]
2017-01-11  3:32         ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-11  3:40         ` arnold

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