L. Futplex McCarthy wrote:
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There can be no other lasting solution but to abandon VTwhatever in favor of bitmaped output devices. Since running X over a dial-up connection is
Have you ever done it? It isn't too bad. Especially if you are running well-behaved apps (most are) that aren't too graphical. Really only large images are a problem. Oddly, I've even seen better performance with xterm shells than telnet through a firewall. I haven't even seen the new version of X over slip protocol compression.
rather inefficient, and considering the significant computing power of the PC's that are now being underused as dumb terminals, processing the data locally seems to be a sensible solution.
I agree.
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