THE LIVING ARCHIVE

From punched cards to autonomous collaborators: the ideas, people, languages and systems that taught machines to follow—and increasingly interpret—human intent.

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Birrell, Nelson, and Remote Procedure Call: Making Network Services Look Local

Remote Procedure Call replaced much hand-written message exchange with interface-defined calls, generated stubs and binding, while forcing programmers to confront the failures that distinguish a network call from a local one.

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Sun NFS and the Stateless Network File System

Sun's NFS combined a portable RPC protocol with kernel VFS integration and a deliberately stateless server model, making transparent remote file access practical across heterogeneous networks.

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