Birrell and Nelson: implementing remote procedure calls

What changed

Engineered and evaluated a usable RPC package covering binding, semantics, transport and exceptions.

Scientific scope

The record is the exact two-author 1984 ACM Transactions on Computer Systems paper and its package. It does not claim invention of every RPC concept, absorb Nelson’s dissertation or later Sun, DCE, gRPC and language-specific implementations.

Evidence

The linked sources identify this contribution and its scope. WRS has not independently reconstructed the scientific claims. The record is the exact two-author 1984 ACM Transactions on Computer Systems paper and its package. It does not claim invention of every RPC concept, absorb Nelson’s dissertation or later Sun, DCE, gRPC and language-specific implementations.

Contributors

• Andrew D. Birrell · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
• Bruce Jay Nelson · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.

• Birrell author copy of RPC paper
• Microsoft Research RPC publication record

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