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From: DCP@QUABBIN.SCRC.SYMBOLICS.COM (David C. Plummer)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: C binding interfaces for TCP/IP
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Date: 7 Feb 88 20:50:00 GMT
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    Date: Fri, 5 Feb 88 13:54:32 EST
    From: sma@gvax.cs.cornell.edu (Susan Armstrong)

    Uh, Sun RPC may be widespread, and it may be a peachy protocol, but it
    was not "first".  Xerox's Courier was published and used before Sun RPC
    was ever conceived.

Not only was it not first, it wasn't even third: The ITS MLDEV protocol
is an RPC-like protocol (MIT AI lab, late 60's or early 70's), and it
existed before there were 68000s, let alone companies building products
based on 68Ks.  Chaos QFILE is a richer RPC protocol (MIT AI lab, late
70's?).