[Info-vax] Reinventing VMS logical names (Fuchsia & Win NT)

[Dan Cross]

In article <uij0po$293rk$1 at dont-email.me>,
Arne Vajhøj  <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>On 11/9/2023 11:07 AM, Dan Cross wrote:
>> In article <uiishi$28arh$1 at dont-email.me>,
>> Robert A. Brooks <FIRST.LAST at vmssoftware.com> wrote:
>>> If you look at the original plans for DECnet/OSI in the late 80's/early 90's,
>>> the expectation was that the distributed naming service would be used for much more than
>>> node name lookup.
>>>
>>> I was a customer at the time, so at that point, I was hearing rumours, but a big concern was
>>> how many naming servers would one need for clusters of varying sizes.
>>>
>>> VSI has all the old internal DEC Notes conferences; reading some of the internal
>>> communication around that time, it's apparent that concern was HUGE deal with the sales force,
>>> as that was a constant question coming from customers.
>>>
>>> As we all know, the project became quite delayed, and among the aspects of the project that got
>>> tossed was the DNS as a broker of all objects.
>>>
>>> Yeah, that would not have addressed the security aspects noted by Jake, but it would have been
>>> an interesting start.
>> 
>> This makes perfect sense.  There was a lot of "distributed
>> object" stuff "in the air" back then; I can well imagine DEC
>> feeling like they had to come up with a response to DCE.
>
>DEC's response to DCE was DCE.
>
>https://vmssoftware.com/products/dce/

Sure.  I'm also quite sure that they wanted something
equivalent in their own ecosystem as well.

	- Dan C.