Data Networking and Distance Cooperation:
Steps Towards Virtual Laboratories and Libraries

Virtual Network Computing - VNC





 

VNC freely available     www.uk.research.att.com/vnc

Remote display system to view a computing 'desktop' environment not only on the machine where it is running, but from anywhere on the Internet and from a wide variety of machine architectures.

For example:

  • An X desktop viewed from a native PC viewer.
  • A Windows desktop accessed from a Macintosh using Java
  • A Unix desktop accessed from a Macintosh using Java.
  • A Unix desktop accessed from a native Macintosh viewer.
  • An X desktop viewed from Microsoft Internet Explorer on a PC.

    VNC - At a glance!

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