On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 05:46:21PM +1000, Johannes Jansson wrote:
> I got the first one here, and I'm wondering whether there has been any work
> with Squeak related to my work, and related to the earlier tries with
> 'Concurrent Smalltalk' and various distributed Smalltalk ideas?
> 
I think Diego has been working on something like that:

rST - Remote Smalltalk
http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/2288

 Framework for supporting distributed Squeak objects. The main goal of the
 project is transparency, so you don't need to change your objects to become
 remote. Another goal is to handle intermittence in the availability of the
 images, so PDA and Notebooks can interoperate in a distributed environment.

Another thing that could be very interesting for this kind of stuff is
Croquet... (As much as I understand it... could be totally wrong)
In Croquet, you have a bunch of shared objects (the 3D world)
which are manipulated from many clients (e.g. by moving your Avatar with
your mouse).
Now you don't need to have a 3D world, you could share the objects that
make up your model. These would be shared between all the smart devices,
updating would be handled by croquet. Fully peer2peer, no central server
needed. 


  Marcus 


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