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From: mishkin@apollo.HP.COM (Nathaniel Mishkin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: The White Paper
Keywords: RPC, networking
Message-ID: <46f42a6a.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM>
Date: 20 Nov 89 18:47:00 GMT
References: <31904@cci632.UUCP>
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Reply-To: mishkin@apollo.HP.COM (Nathaniel Mishkin)
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In article <31904@cci632.UUCP>, dls@cci632.UUCP (Darren Swartzendruber) writes:
> I am looking for a copy of the "The White Paper", also know as
> Apollo NCA and Sun ONC: A Comparison".  _HP Design & Automation_
> (Sept 1989) states that "Apollo had made the paper available to 
> the industry-at-large."  Can someone email to me as well as posting
> it.

The paper is (for better or worse) in Interleaf format and is moderately
long, which are a couple of the reasons I've not distributed it
electronically.  (I'm also not sure I wanted to be pummeled for distributing
it -- but you asked...)  So what I've done is to make Interleaf generate
a Postscript file and then compress'd, uuencode'd, split, and shar'd
it.  (I'd be glad to hear from anyone who knows a better way to do this.
Maybe having a man page for shar handy would have helped :-) The result
is 3 pieces I will post following this message.  If you get the 3 shar
files and run them and then run "make", you should end up with a file
called "comparison.ps", which should be plain old Postscript which you
can print.

Let me make a few things clear:  First, it is based on my knowledge about
current product offerings.  Second, I take personal responsibility for
the content.  This is NOT some official pronouncement of HP.  The
documented started off its life as a writing down of my repeated verbal
responses to the question "So what makes NCS different from Sun RPC?".
If anyone has any complaints, comments, or corrections, please let me
know and I will address them as soon as I possibly can.