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Everything about Transarc
American software company, 1989–1994
Transarc Corporation was a private software company based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, founded in 1989 by Carnegie Mellon University researchers Jeffrey Eppinger, Michael L. Kazar, Alfred Spector and Dean Thompson. The company was formed to commercialise the Andrew File System (AFS), a distributed file system originally developed at Carnegie Mellon. IBM acquired Transarc in 1994. Wikipedia →
🧠Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: TransarcA 5-minute orientation
- Pick up a classic book: AFS user's guideThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Velocity structure (1D) and earthquakes relocation in the flat-slab to normal plate transition zone in the Argentinean transarcCited 2 times
- Go sideways: Andrew File SystemA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Distributed Computing EnvironmentA closely related topic
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
đź“š Books worth reading
- 📕AFS user's guideTransarc Corporation · 1991
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
đź”— Related topics
- Andrew File System The Andrew File System (AFS) is a distributed file system which uses a set of trusted servers to present a homogeneous, location-transparent file name…
- Distributed Computing Environment The Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) is a software system developed in the early 1990s from the work of the Open Software Foundation (OSF), a consortium…
- Andrew Project The Andrew Project was a distributed computing environment developed at Carnegie Mellon University beginning in 1982. It was an ambitious project for its…
- Michael L. Kazar Michael L. Kazar is an American engineer and technology executive. Kazar received a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical…
- Alfred Spector Alfred Zalmon Spector (born October 14, 1954) is an American computer scientist and research manager. He is a Professor of Practice in the MIT EECS Department…
- Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley is a degree-granting branch campus of Carnegie Mellon University located in Mountain View, California. It was established…
- Jeffrey Eppinger Jeffrey Lee Eppinger (born ca 1960)[citation needed] is an American computer scientist, entrepreneur and professor at the Carnegie Mellon University, School…
- Open Software Foundation The Open Software Foundation, Inc. (OSF) was a not-for-profit industry consortium for creating an open standard for an implementation of the operating…