DCE for the HP e3000 (B3821-90003)

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1 General Information
This version of DCE/3000 (version A.01.02) is based on OSF DCE
version 1.0.2 source code. It provides the following OSF components for
the core services:
• Remote Procedure Calls (RPC) — supports the development of
distributed applications by making requests to remotely networked
machines as if they were local. RPCs also implement network
protocols used by clients and servers to communicate with each
other.
• Kernel Threads — supports the interfaces defined in Draft 4 of the
POSIX 1003.4a specification, with some exceptions as stated in this
document.
• Cell Directory Service (CDS) — manages a database of
information about the resources in a group of machines called a DCE
cell. The database consists of the names of resources and associated
attributes.
• Distributed Time Service (DTS) — provides synchronized time
for the computers in a DCE cell.
• DCE Security — provides secure communications through the use
of services such as authentication, which guarantees the identity of
users, and authorization, which keeps track of user privileges.
In the DCE/3000 version A.01.12, the DCE application library is
provided as both an archive library (libdce.a) and an executable library
(DCEXL.HPDCE.SYS). The concept of an executable library is like the
shared library on HP-UX. If you use the archive library, each
application binary will contain its own copy of the DCE routines that it
calls directly or indirectly. If you use shared library, all DCE
applications can share the single copy of the DCEXL on a system.