Xref: utzoo comp.sys.apollo:6920 comp.sys.dec:4354 comp.sys.hp:6677
Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!dali.cs.montana.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!psuvax1!psuvm!cunyvm!rohvm1!rbntjc
From: RBNTJC@ROHVM1.BITNET (Thomas J Cozzolino)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo,comp.sys.dec,comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Why So Few Commercial Applications That Use RPC?
Message-ID: <90299.135118RBNTJC@ROHVM1.BITNET>
Date: 26 Oct 90 17:51:17 GMT
References: <35263@cup.portal.com>
Organization: Rohm and Haas Company
Lines: 14

I can't understand why there aren't more RPC-based commercial applications
out there.

We took a monolithic FORTRAN molecular modelling program and partitioned it to
run graphics on a DN-3000 and a minimization on an Alliant mini-super around
2 years ago (way back to NCS ver. 1.0).  It wasn't that much fun at the time,
but it worked.

Maybe most software companies aren't prepared for the support that would be
involved in running a "shink-wrapped" application over a combination of many
vendors' equipment.  Another big fear is the Sun vs. HP/Apollo RPC issue that
so many of us are tired of hearing about.  Let's get some applications already|

Oh well.  Maybe when Motif and DCE become realities... (?)