Re: HP & Export of DCE

[David Weisman <weisman@osf.org>]

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