History and Origins
The idea of treating network operations as remote procedure calls goes back at least to the 1980s in early ARPANET documents. Bruce Jay Nelson is generally credited with coining the term. One of the first business uses of RPC was by Xerox under the name "Courier" in 1981. The first popular implementation of RPC on Unix was Sun's RPC (now called ONC RPC), used as the basis for Network File System.
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