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From: steinarb@idt.unit.no (Steinar Bang)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.interviews
Subject: Basis for RPC?
Message-ID: <STEINARB.91May4124947@fenris.idt.unit.no>
Date: 4 May 91 10:49:47 GMT
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Organization: Norwegian Institute of Technology, Trondheim, Norway
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I saw some comments to the effect that C++ streams are out as a basis for
InterViews RPC (or rather: will be removed when time permits).
Instead memory mapped files will be used on the systems that implements
them.

I can see that this is more efficient than using streams. Two things that
bother me, however:
 - Not all systems will implement memorymapped files.
 - Net transparancy will be lost.

Will you continue to support RPC classes that uses streams (maybe based on
ANSI C <stdlib> function calls)?

- Steinar