From: owen@nosc.mil (Wallace E. Owen)
Subject: Re: Unix Haters
Date: 1996/03/29
Date: 1996-03-29T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1996Mar29.190354.2250@nosc.mil> (raw)
In-Reply-To: EACHUS.96Mar27142328@spectre.mitre.org
In article <EACHUS.96Mar27142328@spectre.mitre.org>,
Robert I. Eachus <eachus@spectre.mitre.org> wrote:
>
> At 05:21 AM 3/26/96 GMT, Wallace E. Owen wrote:
>
> > What was the first OS to permit mounting another computer's disks
> > over the net? Unix, with RPC/XDR/NFS. Yes, it's now available
> > for some other OS's but none integrate it so well.
>
> If we fail to learn from history... ;-)
>
> I don't really know how to answer this, since there are some
>ambiguities in the question. If net refers to the Internet, the
>answer has to be either Multics, DEC-10's, or Honeywell 316's. If
>not, we can go a bit further back...
>
... Much deleted ...
These systems you describe all provided homogeneous proprietary
solutions. NFS is a freely available standard that supports
heterogeneous collections of disk and compute servers.
BTW, this thread is getting a little far afield of the charter
for this newsgroup.
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1996-03-26 0:00 Unix Haters Alain Graziani
1996-03-27 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-03-29 0:00 ` Wallace E. Owen [this message]
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1996-03-29 0:00 Dr.Dmitry A.Kazakov
1996-04-02 0:00 Philippe Verdy
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[not found] ` <4i26uhINNsd@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca>
[not found] ` <31457584.2475@lfwc.lockheed.com>
[not found] ` <4i4s5f$igc@solutions.solon.com>
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[not found] ` <Pine.A32.3.91.960313165249.124278B-100000@red.weeg.uiowa.edu>
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1996-03-17 0:00 ` Alan Brain
1996-03-22 0:00 ` moi
1996-03-24 0:00 ` Tore Joergensen
1996-03-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-03-26 0:00 ` Wallace E. Owen
1996-03-26 0:00 ` Tore Joergensen
1996-03-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-03-26 0:00 ` Richard Pitre
1996-03-27 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-03-27 0:00 ` Richard Pitre
1996-03-28 0:00 ` Kenneth Mays
1996-03-26 0:00 ` Erik W. Anderson
1996-04-01 0:00 ` Anthony Shih Hao Lee
1996-03-26 0:00 ` Erik W. Anderson
1996-03-26 0:00 ` Erik W. Anderson
1996-03-27 0:00 ` Verne Arase
1996-03-27 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-03-28 0:00 ` Gary Fiber
1996-03-28 0:00 ` Robert L. Spooner, AD3K
1996-03-28 0:00 ` Kazimir Kylheku
1996-03-28 0:00 ` Dan Pop
1996-03-28 0:00 ` James McIninch
1996-03-28 0:00 ` Ian Ward
1996-03-28 0:00 ` Larry Weiss
1996-04-01 0:00 ` Laurence Barea
1996-04-02 0:00 ` Ian Ward
1996-04-08 0:00 ` Laurence Barea
1996-04-09 0:00 ` Ian Ward
1996-03-28 0:00 ` Jeff Dege
1996-03-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-03-28 0:00 ` Robert Crawford
1996-03-29 0:00 ` Verne Arase
1996-03-30 0:00 ` Thomas Koenig
1996-03-30 0:00 ` fredex
1996-03-31 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-04-01 0:00 ` Dan Pop
1996-04-01 0:00 ` Peter Seebach
1996-04-01 0:00 ` Tom Payne
1996-04-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-04-04 0:00 ` Dan Pop
1996-04-05 0:00 ` Edwin Lim
1996-04-06 0:00 ` Wallace E. Owen
1996-04-01 0:00 ` Lawrence Kirby
1996-04-10 0:00 ` Steve Detoni
1996-04-11 0:00 ` Lawrence Kirby
[not found] ` <4jok7f$1l2@solutions.s <4jp1rh$22l@galaxy.ucr.edu>
1996-04-04 0:00 ` sfms
1996-03-31 0:00 ` Kengo Hashimoto
1996-04-02 0:00 ` Kazimir Kylheku
1996-04-02 0:00 ` The Amorphous Mass
1996-04-02 0:00 ` Max Waterman
1996-03-27 0:00 ` Richard Pitre
1996-03-28 0:00 ` Dan Pop
1996-03-30 0:00 ` Lawrence Kirby
[not found] ` <danpop.828240895@rscernix>
1996-04-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-04-01 0:00 ` Dan Pop
1996-04-03 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-04-04 0:00 ` Dan Pop
1996-04-01 0:00 ` Mike Young
1996-04-11 0:00 ` morphis
1996-04-11 0:00 ` James McIninch
1996-04-11 0:00 ` morphis
1996-04-12 0:00 ` Teresa Reiko
1996-04-01 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-04-02 0:00 ` Ralf Graf
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