[TUHS] TUHS Digest, Vol 31, Issue 5

[Larry McVoy]

> in particular - I've seen RFS be mentioned.  This was
> AT&T's implementattion of transparent real-time (for
> contrast with UUCP, FTP, etc.) remote file access.

It wasn't real time, it was "remote file system" == RFS.

It was different than NFS in that it was stateful and that it knew that the
other side knew what it knew (think ioctls, yuck).  

My officemate worked on it, it was problematic.  Don't go there.  NFS is
bad enough, but it works.
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