network file system

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network file system - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  Network File System
  NFS
  
     <networking, operating system> (NFS) A protocol developed by
     Sun Microsystems, and defined in RFC 1094, which allows a
     computer to access files over a network as if they were on its
     local disks.  This protocol has been incorporated in
     products by more than two hundred companies, and is now a de facto
      standard.  NFS is implemented using a connectionless protocol
      (UDP) in order to make it stateless.
  
     See Nightmare File System, WebNFS.
  
     (1994-12-12)