The newcastle connection or UNIXes of the world unite!

@article{Brownbridge1982TheNC,
  title={The newcastle connection or UNIXes of the world unite!},
  author={David R. Brownbridge and Lindsay F. Marshall and Brian Randell},
  journal={Software: Practice and Experience},
  year={1982},
  volume={12},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:1840438}
}
In this paper we describe a software subsystem that can be added to each of a set of physically interconnected UNIX or UNIX look‐alike systems, so as to construct a distributed system which is…
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