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Article #168Apollo files and network
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Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1981 12:50
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1981 12:50
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When I last played with an Apollo a few weeks ago, it appeared to have a hierarchical file structure very similar to UNIX. The operating system treats local files and files on other nodes of the ring net identically, e.g. you can copy a file from one machine to another by typing copy //mike/foo/bar //mary/foo/bar and can do any file operation without respect to which machine the file lives on. As I recall, a single slash at the beginning of a file name indicated a pathname relative to the local node, while two slashes indicated a pathname rooted in some master node for the entire network. Hopefully someone at MIT, Harvard, or Brown can elaborate (or correct). Apollo claims that local and network file access are within a factor of two of each other in speed. Neither appeared particularly fast in the preliminary version I saw.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!duke!decvax!ucbvax!cfh@CCA-UNIX From: ucbvax!cfh@CCA-UNIX Newsgroups: fa.works Subject: Apollo files and network Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1981 12:50:53 +0000 Message-ID: <anews.Aucbvax.1925>