[ih] Distributed file systems [was: As Flag Day approaches at CMU]

[Barbara Denny]

 Andrew File System, part of Andrew project, at CMU but maybe that isn't early enough for you.  Don't have a good reference off the top of my head.
barbara
    On Saturday, September 6, 2025 at 02:27:20 PM PDT, Brian E Carpenter via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:  
 
 I've never looked into the early history of distributed file systems. Was that work at MIT ever published? Was it pioneering or did someone else do it first?

My favourite paper in that area is the "Unix United" paper [1] from 1982.

[1] https://doi.org/10.1002/spe.4380121206 (paywalled) or
http://homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk/brian.randell/Papers-Articles/399.pdf
Regards/Ngā mihi
    Brian Carpenter