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From: craig@BBN.COM (Craig Partridge)
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Subject: Re: Remote Procedure Calls
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In article <9305@saturn.ucsc.edu> ct@tcom.stc.co.uk (Clive Thomson) writes:
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> I am interested in Remote Procedure Calls. If anyone could point me 
> towards any relevant articles, or current research, it would be much
> appreciated.

The "must read" article in this field is Birrell and Nelson's "implementing
Remote Procedure CallS" -- I THINK IN 1984.

Nelson's doctoral dissertation -- Issued as a 1981 Xerox Parc tech report
is also good reading.

More recent stuff inludes Dave Cheriton's work on transaction transport
protocols to support RPC (see SIGCOMM '86 proceedings)  and some of the
work to develop RPC systems capable of having multiple outstanding
calls -- see for example, REXDC paper in Proc. SIGCOMM '89.

Craig