1 Over the years, AFS has developed a rich and interesting history. This page is an attempt to document some of that history for posterity. For starters, here is a mostly incomplete timeline of important events in the history of AFS:
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5 <th bgcolor="#99CCCC"><strong> Date </strong></th>
6 <th bgcolor="#99CCCC"><strong> Important Event </strong></th>
10 <td>[[AndrewProject]] started at [[CarnegieMellonUniversity]]</td>
14 <td>[[Coda]] research work begun (based on AFS) </td>
18 <td> First use of AFS version 3 </td>
22 <td> First use of AFS outside [[CarnegieMellonUniversity]]</td>
26 <td>[[InstitutionalFileSystem]] project at University of Michigan - ports of AFS to mainframe, intermediate servers, disconnected operation, performance/security enhancements </td>
30 <td>[[TransarcCorporation]] founded to commercialize AFS </td>
34 <td>[[ArlaAFS]] project started at Kungliga Tekniska H�gskolan </td>
38 <td>[[TransarcCorporation]] becomes wholly-owned subsidiary of IBM</td>
42 <td> IBM releases [[OpenAFS]] as <a href="http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?OpenSource" target="_top">OpenSource</a></td>
46 -- Jeffrey Hutzelman - 18 Jan 2002 -- Ted Anderson - 18 Jan 2002