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From: melohn@mrbill.Eng.Sun.COM (Bill Melohn)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Are sockets the wave of the future?
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Date: 28 Aug 90 06:10:38 GMT
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>In article <9008242107.AA19843@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, JAZBO@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU
>("James H. Coombs") writes:
> 
> Sun now states that no new applications should be developed at the socket
> level.  They recommend 1) RPC or 2) TIL(?--which starts with SunOS 4.1). RPC
> has several advantages:


If this is stated in any Sun documentation or sales literature, it is
in error. Sun Microsystems supports both the sockets and TLI network
programming interfaces, as well as Sun RPC. In our SunOS 4.1 release
TLI is implemented as a "compatiblity module" to the native socket
implementation.  In SVR4, sockets are implemented as a "compatiblity
module" within the streams framework. All Internet services in both
implementations are written using the socket interface.