Also, very relevant: "A Note on Distributed Computing" 1994, Sun Microsystems Technical Report * http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/1450 http://lambda-the-ul

Also, very relevant: "A Note on Distributed Computing" 1994, Sun Microsystems Technical Report * http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/1450 http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/1450 * http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=974938 http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=974938