Synopsis of Distributed File System Protocols
Peter Honeyman · Deep Blue (University of Michigan) · 1990
This manuscript gives a terse description of the following file system protocols: -NFS: Sun Microsystem's Network File System protocol, Version 2 (the current released version), and Version 3 (to be released in the 47 th quarter of 1989). -RFS: AT&T's Remote File Sharing protocol. -AFS: Andrew File System protocol. -AFP: AppleTalk Filing Protocol (AppleShare). -DDM: IBM's Distributed Data Management protocol. -Sprite: An operating system under development at University of California, Berkeley. -NFILE: A file access protocol devised for Symbolics computers. According to McLuhan, and I have him right here, data collection yields to pattern recognition, so this enumeration should become a classification, turning a crib sheet into a taxonomy.