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From: achille@cernvax.UUCP (achille petrilli)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: The White Paper
Keywords: RPC, networking
Message-ID: <1154@cernvax.UUCP>
Date: 26 Nov 89 09:36:33 GMT
References: <31904@cci632.UUCP> <46f42a6a.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM> <14983@joshua.athertn.Atherton.COM>
Reply-To: achille@cernvax.UUCP (achille petrilli)
Organization: CERN European Laboratory for Particle Physics, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland
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In article <14983@joshua.athertn.Atherton.COM> joshua@Atherton.COM (Flame Bait) writes:
>We are talking about Apollo/HP's white paper comparing Apollo's Networking
>system and Sun's Networking system.  The version of the paper which I have
>is dated Jan. 1988.  If a new version has come out since then, my comments
>would be out of date.
> .......
>0. The paper is out of date by two years at least.  Many things have chagned
>   since it was written.
>
>1. The paper is marketing propaganda with a thin veneer of technical knowledge.
>
>2. Never use the paper's arguments in a debate with someone who understands
>   Sun's RPC: you'll be cut to shreads.  The facts about Sun's RPC are often
>   out of date or inaccurate, the facts about Apollo's RPC are often 
>   technically acurate, but totally misleading.
>
>Joshua Levy                          joshua@atherton.com  home:(415)968-3718
>                        {decwrl|sun|hpda}!athertn!joshua  work:(408)734-9822 

Hi,
I'm in no way an RPC expert, I just tried to use both Apollo's NCS and Sun's
RPC just for a couple of examples and just to find out their applicability to
our environment.

I found NCS a much more finished product (but I'm no expert :-).
May be is just matter of doc style or whatever else, I don't know.

What strikes me, is that there is NO justified technical argument in Joshua's
posting. Point 0) refers to a paper dated Jan. 1988, almost 2 years old, point
1) is irrelevant (Sun RPC doc could be taken exactly like this, as marketing
propaganda, just like any vendor's doc and report), point 2) is just subjective.

I would like to see technical comments, even if they are long, I'm interested
and would really love to see them. Please post, I believe there is interest in
these sort of things.

I'm not working for Sun or Apollo nor I have any interest in them.

Thank you,
	Achille Petrilli
	Cray & PWS operations