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Re: a plea for simplicity

1991-05-06 17:04:53
"How many of those are standard TCP/IP services as opposed to specific Unix 
services?"

They are all RPC services.  RPC is a "standard", in that an RFC has been 
published
which discusses it.  It is also not Unix specific, NFS (for instance) is 
available
for many platforms other than Unix machines.  (Aside: We sell it for VMS, Mac
and MS-DOS & OS/2)  Part of RPC is a "version" field and is used exactly the
way you expect.  (backwards compatibility).  In that list there were many 
duplicates
distinguished only by the version number.

ergo.. there is at least one protocol in wide use which uses version numbers 
successfully.

The message I was responding to was a claim to the contrary.
        David

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