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I remember being so confused by SF in its first years. Why would I want this, instead of CVS in AFS or over SSH? The idea that most software developers wouldn'

by brians 9y ago

I remember being so confused by SF in its first years. Why would I want this, instead of CVS in AFS or over SSH? The idea that most software developers wouldn't have routable workstations, wouldn't have servers they controlled---that we wouldn't keep running networked file systems over the Internet---totally not obvious. The SF people foresaw a need in a changing world and got in front of it.

pjc50 9y ago
When and where were you that use of AFS was normal?
- scolson 9y ago
  Not the commenter, but guessing AFS = andrew file system. This has been used for decades by a lot of the universities who were original internet consumers (MIT, Univ of Michigan, Carnegie Mellon, etc). In fact, it is still used by a lot of these universities and research institutions for data sharing and distributed computing, afaik.
  - danieldk 9y ago
    Our department is still using it, but it is crumbling. E.g. the macOS clients are outdated. Even when there were still updates, they would come months after a new OS X release. (It must be a lot of work for the AFS maintainers to keep everything up to date.)