Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 09:09:27 +0200 From: Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> To: "Oldach, Helge" <Helge.Oldach@atosorigin.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GEOM Gate. Message-ID: <E1A9fmh-0005dv-Oo@cs.huji.ac.il> In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 14 Oct 2003 22:44:14 %2B0200 .
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> From: Richard Tobin [mailto:richard@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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