https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_procedure_call
In computer science, a remote procedure call (RPC) is an inter-process communication that allows a computer program to cause a subroutine or procedure to execute in another address space (commonly on another computer on a shared network) without the programmer explicitly coding the details for this remote interaction
The first popular implementation of RPC on Unix was Sun's RPC (now called ONC RPC), used as the basis for Network File System.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_File_System
没想到RPC与NFS还有如此的渊源:TODO.