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Lynx programming language

Lynx is a programming language for large distributed networks, using remote procedure calls. It was developed by the University of Wisconsin in 1984 for the Charlotte multicomputer operating system[?].

In 1986 at the University of Rochester Lynx was ported to the Chrysalis operating system[?] runing on a BBN Butterfly multiprocessor[?].

Bibliography

M. L. Scott, "The Lynx Distributed Programming Language: Motivation, Design, and Experience," Computer Languages 16:3/4 (1991), pp. 209-233. http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/scott91lynx.html


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