``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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+is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation
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-[[General_information|/rpc]] about RPC.
+Read about the [[general concept of a *remote procedure call* (RPC)|/rpc]].
 
 Uses Mach's [[IPC]] [[mechanism]].
 
-Stub code generated by [[MIG]].
+The [[port]] abstraction allows RPCs to be executed on another computer
+transparently.  This can be implemented with user [[task]]s, but there is an
+implementation in the kernel possible, too, which is called *NORMA*, but is not
+avilable in [[GNU Mach|gnumach]].
+
+The RPC stub code generated by [[MIG]].