HP & Export of DCE
Perry E. Metzger
perry at piermont.com
Thu Mar 28 15:57:02 PST 1996
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
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