[Gllug] Filesystem root directory oddity

[John Hearns]

2009/3/17 Richard Jones <rich at annexia.org>:
> On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 08:35:11PM +0000, Richard Huxton wrote:
>>>
> On some very old Apollo machines I used to use, //nodename/path
> referred to a file on another machine, a kind of poor man's NFS.

DomainOS.
Poor mans NFS? POOR MANS? You do remember how much those things cost don't you?
I remember something like 30K or 50K for the one we had in Glasgow.


> Whether this has anything to do with the current discussion is left as
> an exercise to members of GLLUG!
Pretty relevant to me anyway.

BTW, we missed the 20th anniversary of the Web on Friday - first
developed on a Next workstation of course.
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