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From: benoni@ssc-vax.UUCP (Charles L Ditzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: NCS vs NFS+rpc (In Japanese/Kanji)
Message-ID: <1848@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: 10 Apr 88 07:02:48 GMT
References: <7075@etlcom.etl.JUNET> <3b57a3de.13422@apollo.uucp>
Organization: Boeing Aerospace Corp., Seattle WA
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> In article <7075@etlcom.etl.JUNET> kato%etl.jp@relay.cs.net writes:
> >[2] NCS vs NFS+rpc
Actually this may be of interest to you and others but an article I 
finished reading recently (I am sorry...don't know what mag) mentioned that
AT&T was adopting Sun's ONC (Open Network Computing) and not Apollo's
NCS.  (I will try to dig up the article and give you the reference)
ONC has been around a bit longer than NCS and is based on RPC (Remote
Procedure Call) specification.  The ONC platform also includes
exdended data representation (xdr). XDR provides an vendor-independent
method of representing data. There are a number of elements to ONC
(like NFS, REX (Remote Execution service)....

Sun's ONC architecture has been around for awhile and has a number
of adopting vendors...(Alliant,Apollo, Arete, DEC, Dana, Gould, Harris,
HP, Honeywell, Masscomp, MIPS, NEC, Pyramid, Ridge, SGI, Sony, Stellar,
etc) and universities.