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- Path: sparky!uunet!news.univie.ac.at!blekul11!ffaac09
- Organization: K.U.Leuven - Academic Computing Center
- Date: Saturday, 12 Dec 1992 17:34:18 +01
- From: Paul Bijnens <FFAAC09@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be>
- Message-ID: <92347.173418FFAAC09@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be>
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.osf.misc
- Subject: Re: origins of DCE rpc
- References: <OZ.92Dec7143345@ursa.sis.yorku.ca>
- <1g620hINN159@milk.Warren.MENTORG.COM>
- <DUKE.92Dec10132238@portal.paperboy.osg.org>
- Lines: 21
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- In article <DUKE.92Dec10132238@portal.paperboy.osg.org>,
- duke@portal.paperboy.osg.org (Duke Robillard) says:
- >
- >tal@Warren.MENTORG.COM (Tom Limoncelli) writes:
- >
- > I'm not 100% sure that I got this correctly, but this is what I
- > was told is the origin of DCE rpc.
- >
- > They took 1000 people from the marketing departments of all the
- > finest Unix/workstation companies around the world and put them
- > into a room....
- >
- >I'd believe this story, except there aren't 1000 Unix Marketeers
- >in the world.
-
- That's why they hired a few linguists too (to hyphenate the buz-
- zwords in the corrrect plaze).
- --
- Paul Bijnens
- Linguistics dept., K. University Leuven, Belgium
- Polleke@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be
-