Internet File System?
Rabid Wombat
wombat at mcfeely.bsfs.org
Mon Sep 23 01:54:06 PDT 1996
On Sun, 22 Sep 1996 Scottauge at aol.com wrote:
> There is something in the UNIX world called NFS (network file system). It is
> based on TCP/IP sockets.
>
> I do not know if you know anything about UNIX, but the file system used does
> not have logical drives (like a: or b: etc), just one huge tree that can span
> across many harddrives on many computers, thus making them all look like one.
> NFS helps to connect the other computer's file systems to the network tree.
>
> I think it is pretty cool...
Yeah, real secure too. ;) ;) ;)
- r.w.
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