Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.6.2.17 $; site uiucdcsb.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcsb!grunwald 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 Article-I.D.: uiucdcsb.14900025 Posted: Fri Jan 11 12:45:00 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 12-Jan-85 08:29:33 EST References: <379@unisoft.UUCP> Lines: 23 Nf-ID: #R:unisoft:-37900:uiucdcsb:14900025:000:1010 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 grunwald@uiuc.arpa {uiucdcs, ihnp4} ! uiucdcs ! grunwald.usenet