HP & Export of DCE
David Weisman
weisman at osf.org
Fri Mar 29 06:54:58 PST 1996
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
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