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. The DCE Security Services are discussed a bit in the DCE FAQ [4], and O'Reilly has an entire book on the subject [5].
The product is called DCE RPC and the RPC is used generically as you stated in the beginning of your note. There are many RPCs in the world, aside from the ones you listed. DCE RPC is also known as ISO RPC as the standard is based on DCE. MS RPC is also based on DCE RPC as you stated. DCE is not part of OSF/1 but is middleware supporting distributed computing which is available on virtually all platforms: (Unixes, Windows, Cray, MVS, VMS, Mac is in beta, etc.) Yes, one of the reference ports was OSF/1. We sell the source code separately. We are now seeing OSs bundled with DCE client software. The most recent versions of HP/UX and AIX for example. For more info on DCE see http://www.osf.org/dce/ Howard -- Howard R. Melman ___ ___ ___ Voice: 617-621-8989 Open Software Foundation / / /__ /__ Fax: 617-621-2782 11 Cambridge Center /__/ ___/ / mailto:melman@osf.org Cambridge, MA 02142 http://www.osf.org/~melman/