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From: edwards@world.std.com (Jonathan Edwards)
Subject: Re: CORBA compliant ORBs that support Smalltalk?
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Date: Fri, 10 Mar 1995 02:47:55 GMT
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In article <3jo1mi$19v@mblisd.macqbl.com.au>,
Sherman Wood <sherman@macqbl.com.au> wrote:
>
>We are looking for ORBs that have a Smalltalk binding.
>
>HP-DST certainly does, but it is using TCP/IP sockets and we want 
>something that is more reliable.

??? What is the problem with TCP/IP?
It is irrelevant anyway. Distributed processing implies unreliability.
You must handle failure at higher levels than session or transport.

What I wonder about HP-DST is why anyone would want to lobotomize Smalltalk 
down to the level of C++ by imposing IDL on it. 
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