[52792] in Cypherpunks
Re: HP & Export of DCE
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Wed Mar 27 19:19:30 1996
To: janzen@idacom.hp.com
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 27 Mar 1996 13:38:06 PST."
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Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 17:33:27 -0500
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
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
