Re: [StrongED] StrongED on a network

[Jim Nagel <stred@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Fred Graute  wrote on 14 Jan:
> Since Jim Nagel's question of couple of weeks ago on how to maintain a
> consistent setup across different machines on a network I've pondering
> on how this might be done. It doesn't seem too difficult be there are a
> number of ways of doing it and I would like to know if anyone has any
> specific features they'd like to see.

> Things like:
>  - How many network locations from where to read choices?
>  - Should storing choices always be done locally?
>  - If a network location is unavailable what to use for fallback?

I've wondered for some time (since having more than one Ro computer on 
the network, which is a comparatively new thing for me) how network 
administrators managed the updating and keeping-in-parallel of 
applications back in the days of multiple-Acorn school networks.

In the heady days of the Acorn-Oracle love affair, much was made of 
the Network Computer idea.  The promise was that maintenance would be 
simplified, that only the server would need updating and client 
machines would load their software from there.

So I'm wondering if anything from back then is relevant to this 
StrongEd thread.  Anyone on this list with experience from then?


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