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From: rees@dabo.ifs.umich.edu (Jim Rees)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: OSF Picks Apollo's NCS for Distributed Computing
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Date: 15 Jun 90 16:02:53 GMT
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In article <673@bull.bull.fr>, marc@spix7.depr.bull.fr ( Marc PARIGOT ) writes:
> AFS (Andrew File System) is a distributed file system built on top of NCS.
> Has anyone information about it?

I've just finished a port (client only) of AFS 3.0 to Domain/OS.  It's not
built on top of NCS.  It uses rx, an rpc from cmu (enough acronyms?).  I
don't know rx's ancestry but I think it uses Sun xdr to pack the bits.

The OSF DCE contains an AFS built on parts of NCS I think, but that won't be
out for a while.

By the way, NCS contains an RPC, but has lots of other parts too, like a
distributed naming service.

Glossary:

AFS	Andrew File System
CMU	Carnegie-Mellon University
DCE	Distributed Computing Environment
NCS	Network Computing System
OSF	Open Software Foundation
rpc	Remote Procedure Call
rx	?
xdr	eXternal Data Representation