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From: owen@nosc.mil (Wallace E. Owen)
Subject: Re: Unix Haters
Date: 1996/03/29
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Date: 1996-03-29T00:00:00+00:00
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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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