Lynx (programming language)

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

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

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

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