RPC Project History

The RPC project was started in 1985 in the Online group of the Data Handling (now Computing and Networking) division of CERN. See also:

For details of changes for each specific release of the software:

March 1987: Release 2.0
January 1988: Release 2.1
June 1988: Release 2.2
January 1989: Release 2.3
October 1989: Release 2.4
June 1990: Release 3.0
January 1991: Release 3.1
(coming): Release 3.2
Those interested in related projects, which they may like to chose instead of this RPC system, should look at
OSF/DCE: Distributed Computing Environment which supports C almost exclusively, runs over udp/tcp,
ILU: Inter-Language Unification from Xerox PARC