Well now we know where all of your errors are coming from. Regrettably, you've learned a lot of bunkum, that you now have to un-learn.
The source of that bunkum, or at least the source that you've pointed to, is a canonical example of how rubbish turns into gospel via Wikipedia. It started out, in August 2005, as an intentionally opinionated rant written by someone who didn't supply xyr name, who clearly didn't know the subject, and who pointed to entities that didn't exist at the time in question as xyr authorities.
Other people came along and tried to take the opinions out and leave the facts. But the underlying problem was that the facts weren't factual at all, and were as warped as the rest of the rant was; and no-one with any actual knowledge of the topic, or research ability, has touched the article significantly in eleven years.
And in the meantime, people come along, believe Wikipedia uncritically, and regurgitate a load of old tripe.
Here are some of the things that you have to learn in place of the un-learned junk:
* There were such things as threads in 1991. There were such things as threads in 1988 when Dave Cutler started on "NT OS/2" at Microsoft. There were such things as threads in 1987 when OS/2 version 1.0 was announced. And indeed in 1983 in VAXELN according to Dave Cutler.
* Threads are not RPC, DCE RPC or otherwise.
* The design of Windows NT threads pre-dated the existence of 1003.4a draft 4 (dated 1990-08-10). By years.
For far better things than Wikipedia to read on this subject, see:
* Inside Windows NT. Particularly page 92 of the 1st edition.
* Cutler's own Windows NT Mutant Specification, written in 1989.
* Mark Russinovich's writings on the subject of Windows NT and its VMS heritage.
* Any good book on OS/2 version 1.0 programming that details the threads API.
* Michael Yam's 1996 Dr Dobbs article on porting his wrapper class library from DCE to Win32 threads.
* Any number of books on the subject of DCE, explaining the two quite different things that are DCE RPC and DCE threads.
The source of that bunkum, or at least the source that you've pointed to, is a canonical example of how rubbish turns into gospel via Wikipedia. It started out, in August 2005, as an intentionally opinionated rant written by someone who didn't supply xyr name, who clearly didn't know the subject, and who pointed to entities that didn't exist at the time in question as xyr authorities.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=DCEThreads&oldid=...
Other people came along and tried to take the opinions out and leave the facts. But the underlying problem was that the facts weren't factual at all, and were as warped as the rest of the rant was; and no-one with any actual knowledge of the topic, or research ability, has touched the article significantly in eleven years.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=DCEThreads&type=r...
And in the meantime, people come along, believe Wikipedia uncritically, and regurgitate a load of old tripe.
Here are some of the things that you have to learn in place of the un-learned junk:
* There were such things as threads in 1991. There were such things as threads in 1988 when Dave Cutler started on "NT OS/2" at Microsoft. There were such things as threads in 1987 when OS/2 version 1.0 was announced. And indeed in 1983 in VAXELN according to Dave Cutler.
* Threads are not RPC, DCE RPC or otherwise.
* The design of Windows NT threads pre-dated the existence of 1003.4a draft 4 (dated 1990-08-10). By years.
For far better things than Wikipedia to read on this subject, see:
* Inside Windows NT. Particularly page 92 of the 1st edition.
* Cutler's own Windows NT Mutant Specification, written in 1989.
* Mark Russinovich's writings on the subject of Windows NT and its VMS heritage.
* Any good book on OS/2 version 1.0 programming that details the threads API.
* Michael Yam's 1996 Dr Dobbs article on porting his wrapper class library from DCE to Win32 threads.
* Any number of books on the subject of DCE, explaining the two quite different things that are DCE RPC and DCE threads.