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Abstract: Cartoon is a direct clone of Bryan Yamamoto's XDE Hack "CartoonTool". Besides being an interesting demo, CartoonTool uses a very interesting mechanism, CourierBinding, in order to locate a nearby server using a prototype expanding ring broadcast protocol. CourierBinding has seen its day, but served a useful purpose both in proving that the concept of location based resource binding was viable, and that mechanisms like this are implementable in a natural way. I invite you to take a look at the "Cartoon of the Day", by typing CartoonViewer at the commander (this is still a "hack", so don't be surprised if you ocassionally get errors).

Created by: Bill Jackson (credits to: Byran Yamamoto, Keith Marzullo and Alan Freier)

Maintained by: Bill Jackson <BJackson.pa>

Keywords: Cartoon, CartoonTool, CourierBinding, expanding ring broadcast, XNS, Sirocco