Ted point taken. As I was driving home tonight I thought about both DCE and
UUIDs.  The later is clearly important and we do owe the guys in Chelmsford
a great thank you for that one.  But the registry ...  really now.

On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 6:00 PM Theodore Y. Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 05:36:57PM -0500, Clem Cole wrote:
> > > A lot of what we take for granted today in distributed computing came
> via
> > > Apollo more than anywhere else, as Apollo users and alumni took what
> they
> > > learned to other systems.
> >
> > Anyway, we (as a community) are better for having that system but other
> > than the registry, I can think of little actual technology that we
> continue
> > to use from Aegis.
>
> The OSF/DCE's RPC system came from Apollo, as does the predecessor for
> the UUID layout still in use today (RFC 4122).  Paul Leach brought
> both to the OSF, and as the Kerberos V5 Tech Lead, I worked with Paul,
> and used an early Internet-Draft spec of the OSF UUID and implemented
> it in e2fsprogs for labelling ext2/3/4 superblocks, and from there the
> infection vector spread to the GNOME project.  When Paul brought both
> of those technologies to Microsoft when he went there after OSF went
> belly up.
>
>                                        - Ted
>
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