| | VNC - Virtual Network Computing from AT&T Laboratories Cambridge (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | It is, in essence, a remote display system which allows you to view a computing 'desktop' environment not only on the machine where it is running, but from anywhere on the Internet and from a wide variety of machine architectures. |
 | | Many of us, for example, use a VNC viewer running on a PC on our desks to display our Unix environments which are running on a large server in the machine room downstairs. |
 | | Because the VNC viewer is a software-only version of this 'ATM Network Computer', and so provides 'workstations' which can be created or deleted at will, we named the system Virtual Network Computing. |
| www.cl.cam.ac.uk /research/dtg/attarchive/vnc (470 words) |