Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 12:52:07 -0800 (PST) From: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> To: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> Cc: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <giffunip@asme.org>, Jonathan Mini <j_mini@efn.org>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MGR and libvgl Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980219124832.15022H-100000@shell.uniserve.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.95.980219213936.27649A-100000@korin.warman.org.pl>
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On Thu, 19 Feb 1998, Andrzej Bialecki wrote:
> Major advantage of MGR is that it's a server-client model, very close in
> concept to X, with all advantages of remote clients etc. If we could
> hammer out something like this, it would be a big win IMHO. Not that I
> like the X protocol (I don't know it too well either), but the concept is
> sound and proved useful (at least in case of X).
It is such a good idea that Microsoft will releasing "Microsoft Terminal
Services" for NT shortly! This is technology absorbed from Citrix.
Product was originally called Winframe I believe. The idea is to have a
central NT server with gobs of CPUs and memory, and desktops just run a
thin terminal client. Citrix was claiming that their thin client could
run on a 286 with 1MB of RAM...
And people thought that era of mainframes and centralized computing was
dead!
> Andrzej Bialecki
>
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Tom
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