< networking , operating system > (NFS) A protocol developed by Sun Microsystems , and defined in RFC 1094 , which allows a computer to access files over a network as if they were on its local disks. This protocol has been incorporated in products by more than two hundred companies, and is now a de facto standard. NFS is implemented using a connectionless protocol ( UDP ) in order to make it stateless .
See Nightmare File System , WebNFS .
(1994-12-12)