History
The first version of the MSC standard was released in 1992.
The 1996 version added references, ordering and inlining expressions concepts, and introduced HMSC (High-level Message Sequence Charts), which are the MSC way of expressing State diagrams.
The latest MSC 2000 version added object orientation, refined the use of data and time in diagrams, and added the concept of remote method calls.
Read more about this topic: Message Sequence Chart
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