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Version 4 includes performance improvements and introduces a [[State (computer science)|stateful]] protocol.
 
NFS is strongly associated with [[Unix|UNIX]] systems, though it can be used on any platform such as [[Apple Macintosh|Macintosh]] and [[Microsoft Windows]] [[operating systems]]. The [[server message block]] (SMB), a similar protocol, is the equivalent implementation of a network file system under Microsoft Windows.
 
The term "network file system" is also often used as a generic term — see [[file system]] for other examples.