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- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!hexnut!alistair
- From: alistair@microsoft.com (Alistair Banks)
- Subject: Re: OSF DCE on NT?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep04.012848.10996@microsoft.com>
- Date: 04 Sep 92 01:28:48 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <1992Sep2.102740.1@woods.ulowell.edu>
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- In article <1992Sep2.102740.1@woods.ulowell.edu> perezc@woods.ulowell.edu writes:
- >Hello,
- >
- > I'm not familiar with NT but I was just wondering to what extent
- >OSF's Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) is to be supported by NT?
- >Beyond the threads and RPCs is the Distributed File Services, DTS, Security
- >Service etc. supported too? Does anyone out there know anything about this
- >on more deatail?
-
- In Windows NT we've included an OSF DCE compatible RPC - its not OSF's
- technology or code, its ours - but it does interoperate at the IDL file
- and on the wire with other OSF DCE RPC systems
-
- The preferred PC Network defined in OSF DCE is Lan Manager, and Windows NT
- is a Lan Manager client and server.
-
- The threads in Windows NT are not based on the threads package in DCE,
- rather the threads are built into the kernel, and are executed pre-emptively
- and distributed accross all available local processors
-
- Microsoft has not made any other statements about supporting other
- elements of OSF's DCE or DME - we'll wait until they're fully defined, and
- then we'll see how well the market supports them. In the meantime we're
- moving ahead writing an infrastructure that can communicate with any
- directory service, accept any distributed file system, talk to any
- store and forward messageing system, etc, etc. If other OSF DCE or
- DME pieces become well supported, they can certainly be supported by
- Windows and Windows NT
-
- -- Alistair
-