Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 10:40:23 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> Cc: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl>, "Pedro F. Giffuni" <giffunip@asme.org>, Jonathan Mini <j_mini@efn.org>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MGR and libvgl Message-ID: <199802200010.KAA01856@cain.gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 19 Feb 1998 12:52:07 -0800." <Pine.BSF.3.96.980219124832.15022H-100000@shell.uniserve.com>
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> > 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! Mmmm, and you should see the list of software which doesn't like running in Winframe because they assume they 'own' the machine <sigh> Its neat, but its still not as good as X =) (Of course X on a 286 would be a tad hard, but nonetheless..) --------------------------------------------------------------------- |Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software | |http://www.gsoft.com.au | |The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to| |choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum | --------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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