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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 18:04:02 GMT
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In article <3jq0d5$aur@atlantis.dis.anl.gov>,
Mark Woyna <woyna@eid.anl.gov> wrote:
>
>Isn't HP-DST based on RPC, not TCP/IP?

Both. It uses NCS RPC, which is in turn on top of TCP/IP.

>If you want strictly Smalltalk to Smalltalk distribution, there are other
>options (NON-CORBA at this time).

I'd be interested if you could give me some pointers to them.

IBM has been showing off their Distributed Smalltalk lately, and it gives good
demo. Almost completely transparent distributed programming.
We don't need no steenking IDL!

> However, if you want to interface with
>objects written in other languages, there is not much choice at this point
>in time.

Yes, and that is what is so comical about CORBA. Supposedly 2.0 will actually
work, but I don't know when that will exist, nor if and when HP will support
it.

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