File Access Performance of Diskless Workstations

ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1986, Pages 238-268

  Lazowska, Edward D ^a   Zahorjan, John ^a   Cheriton, David R ^b   Zwaenepoel, Willy ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer system performance analysis; diskless workstations; distributed systems; file servers; local area networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 84976736818     PISSN: 07342071     EISSN: 15577333     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/6420.6423     Document Type: Article

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