Re: HP & Export of DCE

Martin Janzen writes:

The first "RPC" was produced by Sun's Open Network Computing group.

Not even remotely the case -- RPC predates Sun Microsystems by a lot.

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).

I'm not sure its so bad, given that there are at least a dozen RPCs out there or more.

In short, it would help to avoid massive confusion if people were more specific: refer to "DCE RPC", "ONC RPC" (or "Sun RPC", if you must :), or "Microsoft RPC", not just to "RPC".

Probably the case... Perry