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

[Arne Vajhøj]

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.

> 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.

Is DCE RPC less OO than CORBA?

DCE RPC use IDL. And it seems perfectly OO to me. A client can
be written in C but so can clients for CORBA. Just cumbersome.

Clean (as in "out of the box from OSF") DCE RPC may never have caught
on, but DCOM that is based on DCE RPC is on every Windows system
out there.

Arne