25 Jun
2020
25 Jun
'20
6:52 a.m.
On 6/24/2020 12:36 PM, Larry McVoy wrote:
On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 11:12:40AM -0400, Clem Cole
wrote:
Larry's enumeration of NFS/VFS players was good.
I'd add Bob Lyon who led the NFS team (and who later founded Legato
along with Rusty, Joe Moran and Jon Kepecs -- all except Bob being UW
alumni.)
Bob came to Sun via PARC and brought with him a number of the ideas that
Clem had referenced earlier in this thread about RPC, etc. Although he's
on few papers his influence on defining and building NFS etc. was
essential.
Another important contributor was David Goldberg, for building the YP
services that, while functionally separate, enabled the administrative
and deployment environment that helped make NFS useful. David also wrote
the floating-point paper in the appendix to the Hennessy-Patterson
architecture textbook.