``Some'' Mach documentation.

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-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2010 Free Software
+Foundation, Inc."]]
 
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-
-An IDL is an interface definition language.  The most well-known is
-CORBA.  An IDL compiler takes a specification and generates stubs
-that hide the transport details.  In the case of [[microkernel/mach/MIG]], this
-hides the marshalling and unmarshalling of parameters according
-to [[microkernel/Mach]]'s semantics.
+is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation
+License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
+
+An *IDL* is an *interface definition language*.  The most well-known is CORBA.
+
+An IDL compiler takes a specification and generates stub code that hides the
+transport details, and by this implements a [[RPC]] system.
+
+In the case of [[Mach's MIG|microkernel/mach/mig]], this hides the marshalling
+and unmarshalling of parameters according to [[microkernel/Mach]]'s semantics,
+and invoking the respective [[microkernel/mach/port]] operations.