From owner-freebsd-current Thu Feb 19 16:11:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA26517 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 19 Feb 1998 16:11:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA26459 for ; Thu, 19 Feb 1998 16:11:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doconnor@cain.gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id KAA01856; Fri, 20 Feb 1998 10:40:23 +1030 (CST) Message-Id: <199802200010.KAA01856@cain.gsoft.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Tom cc: Andrzej Bialecki , "Pedro F. Giffuni" , Jonathan Mini , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MGR and libvgl In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 19 Feb 1998 12:52:07 -0800." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 10:40:23 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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 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