Is how distribution "works" specified anywhere?

[Joe Armstrong]

  Is there any internal  documentation that specifies how distribution
works?

  Suppose I wanted to change  the distribution mechanisms - is there a
clean interface to the distribution sub-system?

  How  are  things  organised  with  remote Pids?   is  a  remote  Pid
distinguishable from a  local Pid - if  so how?  - If a  remote Pid is
sent in a  message how does the destination machine know  that it is a
remote Pid?

  Given an  expression:

	Pid  ! Message 

  which software  figures out if  this is a  local message send,  or a
send to a remote machine?


 /Joe