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Re: HP & Export of DCE

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Subject: Re: HP & Export of DCE
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 17:33:27 -0500
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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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- Re: HP & Export of DCE
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