[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Niels M�ller) writes:

> There's no plans for anything like arexx-ports, that I know about. But
> they could be implemented on the hurd using ipc (which for some reason
> is usually called "rpc" on the Hurd), and it might be really cute. To
> do it takes a few different things:

"IPC" means interprocess communication.  In Mach, it specifically
means the base-level IPC facility with Mach ports and messages.

"RPC" means remote procedure call.  In Mach, it's implemented by a
pair of IPC messages (a request and then a reply).


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