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

[Dan Cross]

In article <3c044c90-ddb9-40ea-9e12-7c71279cd547n at googlegroups.com>,
Jake Hamby (Solid State Jake) <jake.hamby at gmail.com> wrote:
>On Thursday, November 9, 2023 at 12:40:38 PM UTC-8, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>> DEC did a whole lot of work on DCE. 
>> 
>> OpenVMS itself never particularly incorporated DCE within, but DCE was 
>> what DEC was both pushing internally and externally back at the time. 
>> 
>> Microsoft picked up DCE and ran with it, via the related COM/DCOM/OLE 
>> stuff, and all of what was built upon that. 
>> 
>> But I'd expect the usage of the OpenVMS registry system services is 
>> approximately zilch, too.
>
>At my university, one of the professors and one of the other
>undergrads were really into DCE and setting up DFS and using it
>everywhere. The undergrad was extremely anti-VMS and pro-UNIX,
>as was the style at the time, so they were doing everything
>with Digital UNIX and some DCE solution for Solaris.
>
>DCE was a nice idea but it really lost out in the court of
>public opinion for being expensive, promoted by "dinosaur"
>companies, and not being OO, in contrast to CORBA, which had
>its own problems, but was popular enough to get incorporated
>into the standard Java libraries until it was finally only
>recently dropped.

DCE was sort of like planning for fighting the last war.  The
world had moved on, but OSF hadn't.  There was some neat stuff
in there, but the only really useful thing was DFS, and by that
time the idea of big distributed globally scalable filesystems
was coming to an end.

	- Dan C.