Comment Comment by lizknope Did anyone use AFS (Andrew File System)?My university in the 1990's had hundreds of Unix workstations from Sun, HP, DEC, IBM, SGI, and Linux.It was all tied together using this so everything felt the same no matter what system you were on.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_Computing_Environm...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_File_SystemThe IT dept installed and compiled tons of software for the various systems and AFS had an @sys string that you would put into your symbolic link and then it would dereference to the actual directory for that specific system architecture.https://docs.openafs.org/Reference/1/sys.htmlhttps://web.mit.edu/sipb/doc/working/afs/html/subsection7.6...."On an Athena DECstation, it's pmax_ul4; on an Athena RS6000, it's rs_aix31" and so on. parent lizknope 1 year ago
My university in the 1990's had hundreds of Unix workstations from Sun, HP, DEC, IBM, SGI, and Linux.
It was all tied together using this so everything felt the same no matter what system you were on.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_Computing_Environm...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_File_System
The IT dept installed and compiled tons of software for the various systems and AFS had an @sys string that you would put into your symbolic link and then it would dereference to the actual directory for that specific system architecture.
https://docs.openafs.org/Reference/1/sys.html
https://web.mit.edu/sipb/doc/working/afs/html/subsection7.6....
"On an Athena DECstation, it's pmax_ul4; on an Athena RS6000, it's rs_aix31" and so on.