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From: guy@gorodish.Sun.COM (Guy Harris)
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Subject: Re: Interprocess Communication
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Date: 8 Jan 88 00:38:47 GMT
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Keywords: shared memory, mailbox, sockets, TCP/IP, XNS, heterogeneous networks.

> Exactly.  This is one of the reasons we did NCS.  NCS is a remote procedure
> call facility that is heterogeneous, not only in terms of what systems
> (Unix, VMS, MS/DOS) it runs on, but also in terms of what protocol families
> it runs over.

The Sun RPC facility is also heterogeneous; it has an object-oriented interface
to the transport.  The only instances officially offered in the current version
are to TCP and UDP, although a demo version that runs on top of the ISO network
layer exists and has been demonstrated.
	Guy Harris
	{ihnp4, decvax, seismo, decwrl, ...}!sun!guy
	guy@sun.com