From owner-freebsd-current Thu Feb 19 12:54:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA21348 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 19 Feb 1998 12:54:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pop.uniserve.com (pop.uniserve.com [204.244.156.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA21322 for ; Thu, 19 Feb 1998 12:54:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tom@uniserve.com) Received: from shell.uniserve.com [204.244.186.218] by pop.uniserve.com with smtp (Exim 1.73 #1) id 0y5cwz-00049N-00; Thu, 19 Feb 1998 12:52:09 -0800 Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 12:52:07 -0800 (PST) From: Tom To: Andrzej Bialecki cc: "Pedro F. Giffuni" , Jonathan Mini , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MGR and libvgl In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > > ---------------------+--------------------------------------------------------- > abial@warman.org.pl | if(halt_per_mth > 0) { fetch("http://www.freebsd.org") } > Research & Academic | "Be open-minded, but don't let your brains to fall out." > Network in Poland | All of the above (and more) is just my personal opinion. > ---------------------+--------------------------------------------------------- Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message