(speaking from second hand knowledge) They don't go into much of the really interesting detail in the paper. The awesome part of all of that was that everything an application required to function was under it's own tree, you never had any question of providence, or if the shared libraries would work right on the given release of the OS you might be using. And it worked from any node on the global network. This problem has been solved, most people didn't get the memo.
(speaking from second hand knowledge) They don't go into much of the really interesting detail in the paper. The awesome part of all of that was that everything an application required to function was under it's own tree, you never had any question of providence, or if the shared libraries would work right on the given release of the OS you might be using. And it worked from any node on the global network. This problem has been solved, most people didn't get the memo.