fbag@rice.ARPA (08/19/85)
From: Keith Cooper <fbag@rice.ARPA> Certainly the V system folks at Stanford have an ND server on the VAX. You could try contacting someone in Dave Cheriton's group at Stanford or Willy Zwaenepoel at Rice. keith cooper (cooper@rice)
mike@bambi.UUCP (Michael Caplinger) (08/20/85)
Sorry, Keith, not quite true. The Stanford V-system server only implements block reading from a shared readonly file system. It can't be used in its current state to give a workstation a private read/write disk on a VAX. I'm pretty sure that somebody implemented the ND protocol, but required a Sun source license because they wrote it by disassembling the Sun source. I still don't think it would be that hard to reverse- engineer it from the nd(4) manual page and a dump of some Ether transactions. You can probably find out who did the source-restricted version by mailing to sun-spots@rice.arpa. - Mike