The Network Computing System (NCS) was an implementation of the Network Computing Architecture (NCA). It was created at
Apollo Computer
Apollo Computer Inc., founded in 1980 in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, by William Poduska (a founder of Prime Computer) and others, developed and produced Apollo/Domain workstations in the 1980s. Along with Symbolics and Sun Microsystems, Apollo wa ...
in the 1980s. It comprised a set of tools for implementing distributed software applications, or
distributed computing
A distributed system is a system whose components are located on different computer network, networked computers, which communicate and coordinate their actions by message passing, passing messages to one another from any system. Distributed com ...
.
The design and implementation of
DCE/RPC DCE/RPC, short for "Distributed Computing Environment / Remote Procedure Calls", is the remote procedure call system developed for the Distributed Computing Environment (DCE). This system allows programmers to write distributed software as if it w ...
, the
remote procedure call
In distributed computing, a remote procedure call (RPC) is when a computer program causes a procedure (subroutine) to execute in a different address space (commonly on another computer on a shared network), which is coded as if it were a normal (l ...
mechanism in the
Distributed Computing Environment
In computing, the Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) software system was developed in the early 1990s from the work of the Open Software Foundation (OSF), a consortium (founded in 1988) that included Apollo Computer (part of Hewlett-Packard fr ...
, is based on NCA/NCS. It also was the first implementation of
Universally unique identifier
A universally unique identifier (UUID) is a 128-bit nominal number, label used for information in computer systems. The term globally unique identifier (GUID) is also used.
When generated according to the standard methods, UUIDs are, for practic ...
s.
References
*Kong, Mike, et al. (1987). ''Network Computing System Reference Manual.'' Apollo Computer Inc. New Jersey: Prentice Hall.
*Zahn, Lisa, et al. (1990). ''Network Computing Architecture.'' Apollo Computer Inc. New Jersey: Prentice Hall.
*Lyons, Tom (1991). ''Network Computing System Tutorial.'' Hewlett-Packard Company, New Jersey: Prentice Hall.
*P. Leach et al. (2005).
RFC 4122 — A Universally Unique IDentifier (UUID) URN Namespace'' Internet Engineering Task Force.
Internet Protocol based network software
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