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From: palowoda@fiver.UUCP (Bob Palowoda)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: OSF Picks Apollo's NCS for Distributed Computing
Message-ID: <1056@fiver.UUCP>
Date: 3 Jun 90 05:43:39 GMT
References: <1990Jun1.180211.3586@idacom.uucp>
Organization: Fiver Communications  Fremont, Ca
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From article <1990Jun1.180211.3586@idacom.uucp>, by danny@idacom.uucp (Danny Wilson):
> 
> (Excerpted without permission from Communications week, May 21)
> 
> In a key selection, the OSF picked the remote procedure call
> in the Network Computing System (NCS) of Hewlett-Packard Co -
> one of the OSF's founders.
[some junk deleted] 
> between the two radically different RPC's.
     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

  My question is can both of them coexsist on the same hardware?


> The OSF said the DCE (Dist. Computing Environment) can be easily
> ported for use with a number of operating systems, including the
> OSF's yet-to-be shipped OSF/1, AT&T's Unix System V, Microsoft's
> OS/2 and DEC's VMS. 

   How about DOS?

[some more stuff deleted]

> 
> ... "This decision will delay people using RPC technology because now 
> they have to choose".  Sun claims some 800,000 installed nodes support its
> RPC.
> 
> Jonathan Gossels, manager for interoperability technologies at the OSF, 
> conceded that the number of nodes equipped to handle HP's RPC is 
> significantly smaller, ranging from 400,000 to 600,000.  But he
> noted that whichever RPC choice was made, a number of existing 
> computer-network users would be left behind.

  I somehow doubt these numbers. Remember Sun is not the only on selling
NFS for unix. You got all the UNIX PC's out there that are servers also.
Not only that but I see DOS servers now.
Question, what is the best attribute of NCS that will make NFS users
change over to it?

---Bob

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