Subtly wrong in some places. Sun's RPC system, what became ONC RPC, was not a proprietary protocol, or limited to a few systems. Criminy, it's available today o

Subtly wrong in some places. Sun's RPC system, what became ONC RPC, was not a proprietary protocol, or limited to a few systems. Criminy, it's available today on Linux, BSDs and everything else. As far as DCE RPC being a "standard RPC", having lived through that, it was a proprietary protocol limited to a few systems, and only if you had the money to buy it. It was indeed complicated to use. I still have scars.