Remote Procedure Call
The basic model for Remote Procedure Call (RPC) was described by Birrell and Nelson in 1980, based on work done at Xerox PARC.
Goals was to make RPC look as much like local PC as possible.
Used computer/language support.
There are 3 components on each side:
- a user program (client or server)
- a set of stub procedures
- RPC runtime support