The Object Management Group. “Common Object Request Broker: Architecture and Specification.” OMG Document Number 91.12.1(1991).

Parrington, Graham D. “Reliable Distributed Programming in C++: The Arjuna Approach.” USENIX 1990 C++ Conference Proceedings (1991).

Black, A., N. Hutchinson, E. Jul, H. Levy, and L. Carter. “Distribution and Abstract Types in Emerald.” IEEE Transactions on Software EngineeringSE-13, no. 1, (January 1987).

Dasgupta, P., R. J. Leblanc, and E. Spafford. “The Clouds Project: Designing and Implementing a Fault Tolerant Distributed Operating System.” Georgia Institute of Technology Technical Report GIT-ICS-85/29. (1985).

Microsoft Corporation. Object Linking and Embedding Programmers Reference. version 1. Microsoft Press, 1992.

Linton, Mark. “A Taste of Fresco.” Tutorial given at the 8th Annual X Technical Conference (January 1994).

Jaayeri, M., C. Ghezzi, D. Hoffman, D. Middleton, and M. Smotherman. “CSP/80: A Language for Communicating Sequential Processes.” Proceedings: Distributed Computing CompCon (Fall 1980).

Cook, Robert. “MOD—A Language for Distributed Processing.” Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (October 1979).

Birrell, A. D. and B. J. Nelson. “Implementing Remote Procedure Calls.” ACM Transactions on Computer Systems2 (1978).

Hutchinson, N. C., L. L. Peterson, M. B. Abott, and S. O’Malley. “RPC in the x-Kernel: Evaluating New Design Techniques.” Proceedings of the Twelfth Symposium on Operating Systems Principles 23, no. 5 (1989).

Zahn, L., T. Dineen, P. Leach, E. Martin, N. Mishkin, J. Pato, and G. Wyant. Network Computing Architecture. Prentice Hall, 1990.

Schroeder, Michael D. “A State-of-the-Art Distributed System: Computing with BOB.” In Distributed Systems, 2nd ed., S. Mullender, ed., ACM Press, 1993.

Hadzilacos, Vassos and Sam Toueg. “Fault-Tolerant Broadcasts and Related Problems.” In Distributed Systems, 2nd ed., S. Mullendar, ed., ACM Press, 1993.

Walsh, D., B. Lyon, G. Sager, J. M. Chang, D. Goldberg, S. Kleiman, T. Lyon, R. Sandberg, and P. Weiss. “Overview of the SUN Network File System.” Proceedings of the Winter Usenix Conference(1985).

Sandberg, R., D. Goldberg, S. Kleiman, D. Walsh, and B. Lyon. “Design and Implementation of the SUN Network File System.” Proceedings of the Summer Usenix Conference (1985).

Khalidi, Yousef A. and Michael N. Nelson. “An Implementation of UNIX on an Object-Oriented Operating System.” Proceedings of the Winter Usenix Conference (1993). Also Sun Microsystems Laboratories, Inc. Technical Report SMLI TR-92-3(December 1992).