Aucbvax.1907
fa.works
utzoo!duke!decvax!ucbvax!mike@RAND-UNIX
Wed Jun 24 06:09:33 1981
Re: Apollo Network
You say that the 'apollo software is another story'.
Well, OK, what's the story?
When I was visiting Apollo, it was clear that the hardware was close
to working and that they had no idea just how hard the software they
were planning was going to be to write. Either they didnt know or
they were trying to tell me a story.
Specifically, they intended to write a truly network distributed file
system: with paging, swapping and file transfers all completely
independant of the local machine which might or might not have a disk
drive. When I asked them what file names would look like, to get an
idea of whether the file name would contain the name of the root file
system (location) or whether the location would be 'hidden' from the
user: they had no idea. They had never even thought of the question.
It is possible that there was someone in the building who knew
something about software, but I didnt have the opportunity to meet
them.
I was also not overwhelmed with their desire to build a non-standard
network. But their attitude seemed to be: this is what Prime is doing
and we are really from Prime so this is what we are doing.
Update ??
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