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From: speyer@joy.cad.mcc.com (Bruce Speyer)
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Subject: Re: The White Paper
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Date: 5 Dec 89 14:15:39 GMT
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In article <2197@cs-spool.calgary.UUCP> sharp@ksi.cpsc.ucalgary.ca.UUCP (Maurice Sharp) writes:
	>>Apollo's RPC is like PASCAL; Sun's RPC is like C.
	>
	>     NIDL lets you do Pascal OR C.  You are confusing the interface
	>with the implementation.  Yes, the Apollo NCS is written in Pascal,
	>but then so is the OS.  And not standard Pascal, but one with many C
	>like extensions.  The Sun version is C to the core.
	>
	>     NCS is a can be used with C including a C interface definition.
	>Are you sure you used it ?
	>
	>Maurice Sharp MSc. Student

NCS and the suite of associated tools that are produced by Apollo are totally
implemented in C code.  (How else would it be portable?)

All coding at Apollo has been in C or C++ for the last three years except that
which is tied to Pascal for historical reasons.
Bruce Speyer / MCC CAD Program                        WORK: [512] 338-3668
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