Re: HP & Export of DCE

On Wed Mar 27, 1996, Martin Janzen wrote: Another "RPC" comes from the Open Software Foundation, who unfortunately chose the same acronym for the remote procedure calling mechanism in their Distributed Computing Environment (DCE). This DCE is a part of the OSF/1 operating system, but implementations are available for many versions of UNIX, often as a separate product or option. This is a semi-common misconception, there is no relationship between DCE and OSF/1. OSF/1 was one of the reference platforms during the original DCE development, but so was SVR4, AIX and HP/UX. Except for parts of DFS (the distributed file system), all of DCE is user-mode code and ports easily between un*x platforms. Dave