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Microsoft currently supplies NetMeeting for Windows 95/98/NT
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This supports a different model for sharing
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When you share Word for example, there is only one copy of application running on the master
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In Tango classic shared event model, the application (e.g. spring applet) runs separately on each machine
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At its simplest, NetMeeting shares the "display" (frame buffer produced by application)
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This explains curious hatched area on following page. This corresponds to part of Word window that is obscured on the master but not on the slave.
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NetMeeting captures mouse and keyboard actions in the shared window and treats these as shared events
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This allows shared editing with a difficult master-slave model
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This is an example of Tango interfacing to a C++ client application -- Microsoft's NetMeeting
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