Extended file system on UNIX 4.2/4.3 BSD

[Duncan Gibson]

In article <3082 at sun.uucp> chuq at 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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