Macs: Billions and Billions sold

On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 16:49, jkeyshcm wrote: ditto. We were thinking along similar lines at the Bletchley museum, probably using Acorn BBC hardware and Microvitec Cub monitors as they're so easy to come by and would not be treading on the toes of anyone who might put them to better use. At the very least a scrolling message would be nice. Macs are another possible candidate (and a bit lighter for wall mounting). Again, the hardware's very easy to come by. The Acorn solution has the benefit of being colour, and the Cub displays give a larger visible area. All of which leads to the question... what network-aware scrolling software has been written and for what platforms? Presumably there are two approaches: 1) Each machine on the network needs to know the entire "message" and just maps the relevant bit of it onto its own display, according to commands send from a machine designated as the master 2) Again one machine acts as the master, but passes display frames down the network to each of the other machines, which they then display. The former uses more resources on each machine, the latter is just network-intensive. Hmm... cheers Jules