One of the earliest and quite successful distributed systems was developed by Sun Microsystems, and is known as the Sun Network File System (or NFS)“The Sun Network File System: Design, Implementation and Experience” by Russel Sandberg. USENIX Summer 1986. The original NFS paper; though a bit of a challenging read, it is worthwhile to see the source of these wonderful ideas.. In defining NFS, Sun took an unusual approach: instead of building a proprietary and closed system, Sun instead developed an open protocol that simply specified the exact message formats ...