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• catern 12y ago
  It's been replaced by dbus. Which does indeed have strict types and other features that might be desirable (multicast?). You raise an interesting idea: A shell that pipes materials around from process to process through dbus, and a set of command line tools that accept input over dbus.
  • vram22 12y ago
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-Bus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-Bus does not work for IPC between computers, AFAIK, only for processes within one machine. CORBA works across machines.
• zurn 12y ago
  It was terrible on multiple levels and deservedly faded away after a short fad.
• vram22 12y ago
  And this: http://google.com/search?q=xml-rpc http://google.com/search?q=xml-rpc Still being used some.