On December 16, 1985, Sun Microsystems released the source code for NFS to non-Sun developers:
The 2.0 release is the first release of Sun's implementation
of the Network File System (NFS) to non-Sun developers.
This source is available on GitHub at https://github.com/rsc/nfs thanks to Russ Cox. The source tree included the contents of the volume Networking on the Sun Workstation, formatted in troff, which provided architectural and protocol specifications for the various networking services. This material, converted to PDF has the following chapters:
- Networking on the Sun Workstation (cover, revision history)
- Sun’s Network File System
- Network Services Guide
- Remote Procedure Call Programming Guide
- External Data Representation Protocol Specification
- Remote Procedure Call Protocol Specification
- Network File System Protocol Specification
- Yellow Pages Protocol Specification
- Inter-Process Communication Primer
- Network Implementation
In addition, there is a volume presenting Sun network services from a systems administrator’s perspective: