HELP! * GREY=local LOCAL HTML version of Foils prepared March 15,1995

Foil 3 What is WebWindows ?

From Overview of NPAC Database Acivity Dun and Bradstreet Visit to NPAC -- March 15,1995. by Geoffrey C. Fox * See also color IMAGE
Like UNIX or MS-DOS or Windows 3.1(NT,95), WebWindows is an operating system for a "computer"
The "computer" is a metacomputer consisting of the 20,000 Webservers (currently--eventually hundreds of millions) on Internet for the World Wide Web
WebWindows can also be used for the metacomputer (collection of heterogeneous networked computers) which is a business enterprise system
  • We consider such an application as a collection of Webservers where we use Web technology to manage business information system.
WebWindows is a multi-client multi-server technology
  • Clients are Mosaic or Netscape browsers
  • Servers are NCSA compatible HTTP servers with MUCH additional functionality coming from so-called CGI capability -- written in PERL or C++ typically

Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse University, npac@npac.syr.edu

If you have any comments about this server, send e-mail to webmaster@npac.syr.edu.

Page produced by wwwfoil on Mon Feb 17 1997