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From: grunwald@uiucdcsb.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Sun Network File System
Message-ID: <14900025@uiucdcsb.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 11-Jan-85 12:45:00 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 11 12:45:00 1985
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Nf-From: uiucdcsb!grunwald    Jan 11 11:45:00 1985

When Bill Joy was at the University of Illinois giving a sales pitch for Sun
Workstations to our physics department, I had the chance to ask him what
Remote Procedure Call protocol they were going to be using as their
standard at Sun Microsystems.

He said that they had initially considered the Courier Protocol, but had
decided to design their own due to limitations on data types and data type
specification in Courier.

He stated that the description of this protocol would be broadcast over
Usenet when it was completed. It was supposed to have been done last summer
sometime, but I have yet to see mention of it anywhere. This is unfortunate,
since I need to choose an RPC mechanism for an implementation of a distributed
programming language, and I would have preferred to use one which was already
in use. If anyone hears any more about this, please send me mail about it.

Dirk Grunwald
University of Illinois, UIUC

grunwald@uiuc.csnet
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