Using Tango? Best platform is Windows NT as Java/multimedia flaky on UNIX
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Linux is quite popular
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Need to correctly install multimedia hardware if used
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Download Tango 1.4 plugin for Netscape 4.5. This is a simple install-shield on windows gotten from Run It! Button on Tango page
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One has
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a) On each client a Plugin for browser and perhaps helper applications (e.g. C++ audio-video teleconferencing) downloaded from Tango page as above
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b) A Web Server for shared applications
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c) A Java Server to coordinate collaboration -- Tango Server can also be freely downloaded. Use UNIX or NT
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b) and c) can be defaulted to NPAC or set up specially for each community
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Tango has a well defined API to allow any application to be shared if C++ Java or JavaScript
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NPAC offers tutorials to users or system administrators
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