> I don't know anything about the Emacs code, but CMU CS had a networked
> filesystem (the mach/spice project vaxes) which had the concept of a
> super-root above /, accessed via "/..". E.g. to access file "/x/y" on
> machine "blargh", you'd use "/../blargh/x/y" (IIRC, "/.." was a real
> directory so you could do "cd /..", "ls /.." to see all machines, etc)..
> I think this is the Andrew file system.
No, it wasn't it. I believe it was locally called "RFS" (for "Remote File
System") and predated AFS. I doubt it's still in use.
Stefan
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