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From: drg@rlvd.UUCP (Duncan Gibson)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Extended file system on UNIX 4.2/4.3 BSD
Message-ID: <999@rlvd.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 8-Jan-86 06:47:58 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan  8 06:47:58 1986
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References: <617@mit-bug.UUCP> <3082@sun.uucp>
Reply-To: drg@rlvd.UUCP (Duncan Gibson)
Organization: Software Engineering Group, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
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In article <3082@sun.uucp> chuq@sun.uucp (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
>
>On more transparent access issues, you can look at the Newcastle connection
>(V7 based) which uses a superroot scheme or NFS, which was developed by Sun

I don't really know much about NFS, but the Newcastle Connection provides
the means of producing a multi-machine Un*x system, which allows remote file
access, remote execution, piping between processes running on different
machines, etc. transparently.

see	"The Newcastle Connection, or UNIXes of the World Unite!" by
	 D R Brownbridge, L F Marshall an B Randell in
	 Software - Practice and Experience, Vol. 12, 1147-1162 (1982)
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