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

[Karl Auerbach]

My close friend (now gone) Frank Heinrich worked on a distributed file 
system as part of Farber's DCS project at UC Irvine in the late 1960's.  
I don't know much more than that except that, like much of DCS, there 
was a request-for-bid, bid, binding handshake to allocate resources.

     --karl--

On 9/6/25 3:36 PM, Barbara Denny via Internet-history wrote:
>   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