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Rendezvous: an architecture for synchronous multi-user applications

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John F. Patterson,

Steven L. Rohall,

Scott W. MeeksAuthors Info & Claims

CSCW '90: Proceedings of the 1990 ACM conference on Computer-supported cooperative work

Pages 317 - 328

https://doi.org/10.1145/99332.99364

Published: 01 September 1990 Publication History

Abstract

Rendezvous is an architecture for creating synchronous multi-user applications. It consists of two parts: a run-time architecture for managing the multi-user session and a start-up architecture for managing the network connectivity. The run-time architecture is based on a User Interface Management System called MEL, which is a language extension to Common Lisp providing support for graphics operations, object-oriented programming, and constraints. Constraints are used to manage three dimensions of sharing: sharing of underlying information, sharing of views, and sharing of access. The start-up architecture decouples invoking and joining an application so that not all users need be known when the application is started. At present, the run-time architecture is completed and running test applications. As a first test of the complete Rendezvous architecture, we will implement a multi-user card game by the end of the summer.

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