Re: AFS/Internet File System

[Phil Pishioneri]

On Thu, 28 May 1998 12:08:20 -0700 (PDT)  "Shyh-Wei Luan" wrote:
> I know part of the problems is that there is no free Windows 9x clients.  But
> are there any insurmountable technical difficulties?  There are Windows 9x NFS
> clients and there is an NT AFS client. I don't think Windows 9x AFS client
> would be so difficult to do.  But can it be free?  Make the client free or
> give the market to Microsoft who is making everything (including the CIFS
> client) free to kill competition first! 

Speaking of free clients, I see that the USENIX 1998 Technical
Conference has a session entitled

        Arla: Freely Available AFS Client 

        Johan Danielsson, Royal Institute
        of Technology; Assar Westerlund,
        Swedish Institute of Computer
        Science 

Anyone have any more details (I did some quick web searching but
was unsuccessful)?

-Phil