SharedX

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SharedX was a tool developed at HP in the mid 1980s to allow X servers to "shared" a window, thus allowing users at multiple workstations to interact with the same X window. The intent was to provide a real-time collaboration in an X11 network environment. A decade later, this effort would be termed "desktop sharing", with VNC being a major player. The first version was developed at HP Labs in 1988 by Dan Garfinkel and Steve Lowder, based on work previously done by Phil Gust.[1][2]

The tool was supplied in versions of HP-UX.[3][4][5]

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  1. ^ Phil Gust, "Shared X: X in a Distributed Group Work Environment," presented at the 2nd Annual X Technical Conference, Boston, MA, January, 1988.
  2. ^ Daniel Garfinkel, Bruce C. Welti and Thomas W. Yip, HP SharedX: A Tool for Real-Time Collaboration April 1994, Hewlett-Packard Journal.alt URL
  3. ^ Shared X man page
  4. ^ SharedX service release note
  5. ^ T. Ming Jiang, Lakshmanan Sankaran Fast, Portable Application Mirroring IEEE Software, March 1995 (Vol. 12, No. 2) pp. 57-63