Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!hplabs!hpl-opus!hpspdra!burdick From: burdick@hpspdra.HP.COM (Matt Burdick) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: Re: reason to buy Apollos Message-ID: <13730001@hpspdra.HP.COM> Date: 11 Jul 90 22:36:17 GMT References: <9007070357.AA00259@zeus.WRI.com> Organization: HP Stanford Park - Palo Alto, CA Lines: 22 >> 1) File system: object oriented (can write your own handlers for >> interestingly structured files). Nicely networked, >> automagically allows access to any disk on the network, no >> setting up of daemons required for this. > This could be quite nice if it worked properly. The //netdirecory is > great, maybe we can push HP/Apollo to get it included in OSF/2. AFS (the Andrew File System) has been accepted as the OSF/DCE base for a distributed file system. As I understand it, AFS (originally written by CMU, but now distributed by Transarc) will be re-written to use NCS, much like Apollo's // file system. Also like the Apollo setup, AFS will let you access directories such as // (ie: /eddie.mit.edu/usr/tmp). Warning: I haven't been keeping up with the latest developments for this, so I may be slightly out-of-date. -matt -- Matt Burdick | Hewlett-Packard burdick@hpspd.spd.hp.com | Intelligent Networks Operation