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1.SH
2Acknowledgements
3.PP
4Ken Thompson created the Plan 9 file server
5and maintained it for many years.
6The cached WORM driver is based upon
7Sean Quinlan's PhD. thesis and prototype.
8Jim McKie maintained the IBM-PC-dependent code,
9a thankless job.
10Bruce Ellis modified the
11.I 8c
12compiler in 2004
13to generate much faster code for common
14.I vlong
15operations, which made the 64-bit file server feasible.
16Nigel Roles contributed support for the APC UPS
17and the NCR/Symbios/LSI-Logic SCSI host adaptors.
18.
19.SH
20References
21.IP [1]
22Sean Quinlan, ``A Cached WORM File System,''
23.I "Software\(emPractice and Experience" ,
24Vol 21., No 12., December 1991, pp. 1289\-1299.
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