... operating systems and distributed applications Initially designed for UNIX, it has now been ported to all major operating systems including VMS and Windows variants, as well as desktop operating systems ... systems, notably Sun RPC However, DCE RPC is nevertheless representative of other RPC systems, and its 136 COMMUNICATION CHAP specifications have been adopted in Microsoft's base system for distributed ... the client and server machines are identical and all the parameters and results are scalar types such as integers, characters, and Booleans, this model works fine However, in a large distributed...