These papers from 1977 to 1985 describe both academic work and commercial products. They are not (yet) sorted by date. (Several are undated.)
- Collected memos from 1977-1982: The Xerox Alto IFS.
- Jeremy Dion: The Cambridge File Server
- Daniel Swinehart, Gene McDaniel, & David Boggs: WFS: A Simple Shared File System for a Distributed Environment
- Jerry Popek et al: LOCUS: A Network Transparent, High Reliability Distributed System
- Brian Randell: THE NEWCASTLE CONNECTION: a software subsystem for constructing distributed UNIX systems
- D. R. Brownridge, L. F. Marshall & B. Randell: The Newcastle Connection
- Alex Phillips: The Livermore Interactive Network Communication System
- Walter Tichy & Zuwang Ruan: Towards a Distributed File System
- Clement T. Cole, Perry B. Flinn & Alan B. Atlas: An Implementation of an Extended File System for UNIX
- Matthew Hect et al: A Distributed File System for UNIX
- Apollo Computer: AEGIS Overview
- Richard Rashid & George Robertson: Accent: A communication oriented network operating system kernel
- Butler Lampson: Remote Procedure Calls
- James Morris et al: Andrew: A Distributed Personal Computing Environment
- Michael Kazar: Synchronization and Caching Issues in the Andrew File System
- Charles Sauer et al: RT PC Distributed Services
In addition, the Internet Archive hosts the following papers:
- Howard Chartock: RFS in SunOS
- Andrew Rifkin et al: RFS Architectural Overview