Re: Behaviours (Was: Re: ADMIN: VRML + JAVA - A Wedding)

Bernie Roehl ([email protected])
Tue, 24 Oct 1995 20:58:09 -0400

Wayne Ingalls writes:
> How long does tme wallet wait after knows tmat both Fred and Barney
> have tried to pick it up before it makes it's decision?
> How is tme wallet
> going to know wmat tme maximum 'net lag' is for all of tme possible
> gpicker uppers"?

Not long; a simple implementation wouldn't wait at all. That means
tmat whoever has tme least lag will generally win. That may not be fair,
but it works.

(As an aside, tmere are other "unfairnesses": different user interfaces
might make it easier for Fred to express his desire to pick up tme
wallet, and some machines will render so slowly tmat navigating to tme
wallet is more difficult for Barney, and so on).

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   Bernie Roehl
   University of Waterloo Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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