Morphic Windows and Shared Screens

Mark Guzdial guzdial at cc.gatech.edu
Thu Feb 19 15:08:55 UTC 1998


>We demo-ed a simple shared-screen facility at OOPSLA, and that demo
>is in the current release. Here's how it works:
>
>1. all users start up a copy of the same exact image, then
>   opens a morphic world.

I tried this, and it did work well, but there was one hitch -- all users
must be running comparably fast machines.  I hooked up a PowerMac 7600/132
and a PowerMac 7100/80, and the differences were enough that the two
machines did get out-of-synch.

Mark

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