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From: achille@cernvax.UUCP (achille petrilli)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: <None>
Message-ID: <2121@cernvax.UUCP>
Date: 29 Jul 90 13:49:12 GMT
References: <7054.26adcc1e@swift.cs.tcd.ie> <4bd2e824.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM>
Organization: CERN, European Laboratory for Particle Physics
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In article <4bd2e824.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM> pcc@1.HP.COM writes:
>In article <7054.26adcc1e@swift.cs.tcd.ie>, gerry@swift.cs.tcd.ie writes:
>|> :
>|> 	Does anybody know about Sun RPC run-time libraries
>|> 	available for 10.2?
>|> 
>
>They certainly aren't available from Apollo.  Of course, why would anybody
>want to work with some obtuse, inelegant RPC when you've got NCS.  (And if
>THAT doesn't start another flame ware, I dunno what will).
>
>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>    Peter Craine                +  "Home is where you wear your hat."
>    Hewlett-Packard             +
>    Chelmsford Response Center  +  *I* don't want my opinions.  Why would HP?

Just to throw in my 2 cents.
Apollo has ported SUN RPC to Domain/OS. Otherwise there could be no NFS
product from Apollo. So the library does exist in Apollo but, I guess,
is not distributed.
(For a proof of that, do an 'nm' or 'dump -t' on /etc/nfsd, you'll find
all routine names that you'd expect, for instance, xdr*).

Now, while I'd tend to agree with Peter about NCS quality, features, etc,
I feel frustrated because Apollo has done the work and is not allowing
other people to benefit from it.
This sort of 'beat the user' attitude will end up killing Apollo.


Achille Petrilli
Management Information Systems