[52837] in Cypherpunks
Re: HP & Export of DCE
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Weisman)
Thu Mar 28 11:21:41 1996
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 10:30:27 -0500
From: David Weisman <weisman@osf.org>
To: janzen@idacom.hp.com
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <9603272138.AA03891@sabel.idacom.hp.com>
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
