History of RPC.
Written by V R Sunday, 05 December 2010 16:39
There were different implementations of RPC by different companies in the 1980s.Among them were Sun Microsystems's Open Network Computing(ONC) and Apollo Computer's Network Computing Architecture(NCA).Today,most commercial UNIX systems,such as Hewlett Packsdd's HP-UX,International Business Machines's AIX,Sun Microsystem's Sun OS 4.1x and Santa Cruz Operation's SCO UNIX all implementation RPC based on the ONC method.
However,Sun's Solaris 2.x operating system and UNIX system V.4 implement RPC based on a modified version of the ONC method.The two methods are very similar,namely,they both use external data representation format to transmit data scross networks and provide a rocgen compiler to simplify the creation of RPC applications.The two methods differ,in that the ONC-based RPC APIs are based on sockets,whereas System V.4 RPC APIs can be based on sockets or on TLI.
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