A Remote Procedure Call Facility for Interconnecting Heterogeneous Computer Systems
Brian N. Bershad, Doris Ching, E.D. Lazowsk, Jan Sanislo, Michael F. Schwartz · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering · 1987
Heterogeneity in hardware and software is an inevitable consequence of experimental computer research. At the University of Washington, the Heterogeneous Computer Systems (HCS) project is a major research and development effort whose goal is to simplify the interconnection of heterogeneous computer systems.