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Prospero
Pros•per•o (ˈprɒs pəˌroʊ)
n. (in Shakespeare's The Tempest) the exiled Duke of Milan, who is a magician.
Prospero
Prospero[′präs·pə·rō] (astronomy) A small satellite of Uranus in a retrograde orbit with a mean distance of 10,250,000 miles (16,500,000 kilometers), eccentricity of 0.324, and sidereal period of 5.50 years. Prosperouses magic to achieve ends. [Br. Lit.: The Tempest]See: MagicProsperoA tool for organising Internet resources. Prospero allowseach user to organise the contents of remote file servers intohis own virtual file system with his own hierarchical namespace consisting of links to remote objects. Remote indexingservices are made available by treating the results as avirtual directory. A "union link" allows the contents of thelink's target directory to appear as part of the directorycontaining the link. Arbitrary filters can be associated withlinks to modify the representation of the target directory asdesired. Prospero directories can be shared between users.The Prospero protocol is used for communication betweenclients and servers in the archie system.
A prototype of Prospero has been available since December1990. It interfaces with Sun NFS, the Andrew File Systemand FTP (with local caching) and Archie. Support forWorld-Wide Web and WAIS is planned (1992).
E-mail: .ftp://prospero.isi.edu/pub/prospero.Prospero
ProsperoA blog on the website of The Economist that covers art, literature, and the market for both. |