GEOM Gate.

Danny Braniss danny at cs.huji.ac.il
Wed Oct 15 00:09:42 PDT 2003


> From: Richard Tobin [mailto:richard at cogsci.ed.ac.uk]
> > > Ok, GEOM Gate is ready for testing.
> > > For those who don't know what it is, they can read README:
> > 
> > Aaargh!  It's the return of nd(4) from SunOS.
> 
> Excuse me?
> 
> # uname -a
> SunOS galaxy 4.1.4 18 sun4m
> # man nd
> No manual entry for nd.
> #
/history
back in the days when the internet was LAN, SUN invented 'The Network is the
Computer', YP for yellow pages (now NIS), and ND for Network Disk (A RPITA).
but disks where expensive so it was rather neat, ND was replaced by NFS, but
NIS is is still around :-).
history/

danny
PS: as some like to say, nothing new under the sun




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