[comp.sys.hp] A comparison of Commercial RPC Systems

joshua@athertn.Atherton.COM (Flame Bait) (07/18/89)

I've finished work on a paper entitled "A Comparison of Commercial RPC
Protocols" which I gave at NCF: The Network Computing Forum, and also
as a work in progress at USENIX.

It compares RPC (Remote Procedure Call) systems from Apollo, Sun and 
Netwise for speed and dependablity.  I'm posting the paper (in troff 
format) to comp.misc, so interested people can get it.  If you can not 
get comp.misc, then please send me email, and I'll send it to you.  I 
can also send a plain text version, for people who do not have nroff 
or troff.

I'm also thinking about follow on work to compare data representation
techniques (Sun's XDR vs. Apollo's RMR vs. Netwise's ASN.1).  If you
would like to help (especially if you use Apollo's NCS) please email me.

Joshua Levy
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mishkin@apollo.COM (Nathaniel Mishkin) (07/25/89)

In article <6569@joshua.athertn.Atherton.COM> joshua@Atherton.COM (Flame Bait) writes:
>I've finished work on a paper entitled "A Comparison of Commercial RPC
>Protocols" which I gave at NCF: The Network Computing Forum, and also
>as a work in progress at USENIX.
>
>It compares RPC (Remote Procedure Call) systems from Apollo, Sun and 
>Netwise for speed and dependablity.  I'm posting the paper (in troff 
>format) to comp.misc, so interested people can get it.  ...

I am seeking to end any cross-posting concerning this article by
posting my response to comp.protocols.misc.  I suggest all further
discussion take place there.

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                    -- Nat Mishkin
                       Apollo Computer Inc., Chelmsford, MA
                       mishkin@apollo.com