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<td><font face="Times">DistributedObjects provides a mechanism for distributed programming.&nbsp; Typically, this takes the form of a server program that offers objects (services) to multiple clients, although configurations of pure peers are also common and useful.</font>

<p><font face="Times">The design objectives for DistributedObjects were to</font></td></tr>

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