SharedX

"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. [Phil Gust, "Shared X: X in a Distributed Group Work Environment," presented at the 2nd Annual X Technical Conference, Boston, MA, January, 1988.] [Daniel Garfinkel, Bruce C. Welti and Thomas W. Yip, [http://www.hpl.hp.com/hpjournal/94apr/apr94a4.pdf HP SharedX: A Tool for Real-Time Collaboration] April 1994, Hewlett-Packard Journal. [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0HPJ/is_n2_v45/ai_15103349 alt URL] ]

The tool was supplied in versions of HP-UX. [ [http://www.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/doc/man/hpux/SharedX.1.html Shared X man page] ] [ [http://www.docs.hp.com/en/5965-4406/ch07s43.html SharedX service release note] ] [T. Ming Jiang, Lakshmanan Sankaran [http://csdl2.computer.org/persagen/DLAbsToc.jsp?resourcePath=/dl/mags/so/&toc=comp/mags/so/1995/02/s2toc.xml&DOI=10.1109/52.368267 Fast, Portable Application Mirroring] IEEE Software, March 1995 (Vol. 12, No. 2) pp. 57-63 ]

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