feit@cs.odu.edu (Mark "The Nose Knows" Feit) (02/03/91)
For about the last year or so, I've been developing a package for sharing X clients among systems connected over the Internet, and some of the same problems regarding person-to-person communications came up. What I think is being missed here is that these type of tools are not intended to completely handle _all_ communications among the participants. The package I developed provides communications for the tools only, but not the participants. That's to be taken care of elsewhere. The test bed for this mess is supposed to be a network of conference rooms in North Carolina equipped with full video teleconferencing (the conventional variety, no computers involved) and a ring of T1 lines connecting the workstations, of which there is one per room. That type of setup provides a good environment for collaboration. It's going to be a long time before we can put _everything_ on the machines, since our networks don't have the bandwidth just yet. Soon enough, though. -- - Mark ................................. ................................. : Mark A. Feit : Internet: feit@cs.odu.edu : : ODU Computer Science - BSCS '90 : UUCP: aplcen!wb3ffv!nose!mark : : - (Fill in an employer here.) - : "Beat Iraq: SLAM SADDAM" : ................................. ................................. "Programming is 10% science, 25% ingenuity and 65% getting the ingenuity to work with the science."