Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!milano!mister-curious!loo
From: loo@mister-curious.sw.mcc.com (Joel Loo)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: multi-user editors???
Message-ID: <2262@mister-curious.sw.mcc.com>
Date: 21 Apr 89 16:04:22 GMT
References: <8531@xanth.cs.odu.edu> <1481@cfa.cfa.harvard.EDU>
Reply-To: loo@mister-curious.sw.mcc.com (Joel Loo)
Distribution: usa
Organization: MCC, Austin, Texas
Lines: 27

In article <1481@cfa.cfa.harvard.EDU> lbn@ksuvax1.cis.ksu.edu (Lars Bo Nielsen) writes:
>> Do any of y'all know of any full-screen editors that support multiple 
>> users editing a single file at one time???  
>
>Sorry, but I don't quite follow you. When would this be usefull, 

It will be useful in collaborative working session, e.g
computer-conferencing, group software engineering. 
Look up the various proceedings of the Conference on Computer Supported
Collaborative Works (CSCW) and other similar papers for details. A
portion of the works in CSCW addresses the problem of multi-user
editing. There are no useful and marketable products yet since the
technology is only 2-4 years old.

>and how on earth would you implement such a thing?

Need new user-interface paradigms and new coordination algorithms. Same
thing: read up Proc. of CSCW.

-----------------------------------
Joel Peing-Ling Loo      Voice: 512-338-3680 _ _ Email: loo@mcc.com
MCC (=E)                                .o|o( v )+-H- o
3500 West Balcones Centre Drive         TO|O \ / | U  |
Austin, TX 78759                        % |   V   ---/ \

[ Disclaimer: The above article/signature reflects only my own opinion; 
my employer has nothing to do with it. ]