Microsoft Remote Procedure Call (RPC) for the C and C++ programming languages is designed to help meet the needs of developers working on the next generation of software for the Microsoft® MS-DOS®, Microsoft® Windows®, Microsoft® Windows® 95, and Microsoft® Windows NT® family of operating systems.
Microsoft RPC represents the convergence of three powerful programming models: the familiar model of developing C applications by writing procedures and libraries; the model that uses powerful computers as network servers to perform specific tasks for their clients; and the client-server model, in which the client usually manages the user interface while the server handles data storage, queries, and manipulation.
This section explains the convergence of these three powerful models in distributed computing, which delivers the ability to share computational power among the computers on a network. This section also describes the industry standard for RPC and provides an overview of Microsoft RPC components and their operation.