wpg@mendel.acc.Virginia.EDU (William P. Gardner) (08/04/90)
This question arises from a discussion about the possibility of developing a statistical program. Instead of writing code and distributing it on tape to local sites, one could develop it at a central site and have the (relatively few but intensively) interested laboratories login remotely over the net. Here are my questions: 1. Is it possible to have a workstation at a remote site that displays multiple windows controlled by a program at the central site? 2. Is it possible to have one or more of those windows be shared among two or more remote workstations? The goal is to facilitate collaboration between statistical specialists at the central site and investigators at the remote sites, or among several investigators at the remote site. Comments and references would be very welcome. [][][][][][][][][][][] William Gardner [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][] [] /_ o / / Department of Psychology wpg@virginia.edu [] [] /__) / / / University of Virginia 804-924-0669 [] [][][][][][][][][] Charlottesville, VA 22903 FAX:804-924-7185 [][]
geo@runxtsa.runx.oz.au (George Bray) (08/06/90)
In article <1990Aug4.145827.7722@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> wpg@mendel.acc.Virginia.EDU (William P. Gardner) writes: >1. Is it possible to have a workstation at a remote site that displays > multiple windows controlled by a program at the central site? >2. Is it possible to have one or more of those windows be shared among > two or more remote workstations? MacWEEK 31 July 1990 mentions that Aspects 1.0 developed by Group Technologies will be announced at the Boston Expo this week. Terms like "Real-time document conferencing" and "free-for-all brainstorming mode" are mentioned. It will include word processing, paint and draw tools and allow participants to work by modem or LAN. It says their electric telephone number is 703-528-1555 in USA. -- George Bray > Telephone: +61-2-411-3222 Avante Systems > Earthnet: peg:geo Facsimile: +61-2-415-2212 27 Albert Avenue > AppleLink: AUST0150 QuickMail: +61-2-415-2210 Chatswood 2067 AUSTRALIA > CompuServe: 72711,253 Internet : geo@ditsyda.OZ.AU
brucec@phoebus.phoebus.labs.tek.com (Bruce Cohen;;50-662;LP=A;) (08/10/90)
In article <1990Aug4.145827.7722@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> wpg@mendel.acc.Virginia.EDU (William P. Gardner) writes: > 1. Is it possible to have a workstation at a remote site that displays > multiple windows controlled by a program at the central site? > > 2. Is it possible to have one or more of those windows be shared among > two or more remote workstations? Yes, both are possible with the X window system, since one of the goals of the X design was network (in general, communication path) transparency. To see a demo of this sort of thing, try out wscrawl, a program which was posted to the Usenet newsgroup comp.sources.x a few months ago, and is available from the usual archives via anonymous ftp (I got it from uunet.uu.net). Wscrawl allows multiple users on multiple workstations (any one of which or none of which might be the computer running the program) to share a window in which they all can draw and type text. When one user resizes the window, it gets resized for all. Etc. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE: USE THIS ADDRESS TO REPLY, REPLY_TO IN HEADER IS BROKEN! Bruce Cohen, Computer Research Lab email: brucec@tekcrl.labs.tek.com Tektronix Laboratories, Tektronix, Inc. phone: (503)627-5241 M/S 50-662, P.O. Box 500, Beaverton, OR 97077