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From: fkittred@bbn.com (Fletcher Kittredge)
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Subject: Re: NCS/RPC port inefficiencies
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Date: 15 May 91 12:04:58 GMT
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In article <1991May12.172642.6715@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au> s900387@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Craig Macbride) writes:
>I have been doing some work with some code for clients which find servers
>through the location broker and then access them via rpc calls. On Apollos
>where there is concurrent programming support, all is well. On an hp9000
>822, which is probably going to be the target machine (despite extremely
>poor pre-sale response by HP), we had to code around the lack of concurrent
>programming support...
> ...
> ...
> ...
>Any suggestions, including comments as to other platforms which have better
>rpc ports than the hp9000, would be greatly appreciated.

Craig, you will be wanting OSF DCE or OSF/1 on HP or DEC systems.  Both
OSF/1 and OSF DCE include Pthreads (draft 4) support.   What you need to
do is find out *WHEN* HP is planning to release OSF/1, DCE or Pthreads
support on your target platform.  DEC has already released OSF/1...  I
suspect HP will not be far behind.

regards,
fletcher
Fletcher Kittredge
Senior Engineer, BBN Software Products
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