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by mcguire
2137 days ago
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"RDS was first released as "Terminal Server" in "Windows NT Server 4.0 Terminal Server Edition" a stand-alone operating system including SP3 and fixes built in. Starting with Windows 2000, it was an optional role and became a mainstay of the Windows NT family of operating systems and was improved with each version of Windows. The rename to "Remote Desktop Services" occurred with Windows Server 2008 R2 in 2009." X predates Windows NT by more than 10 years and is a completely different beast than remote desktop systems. (Disclaimer: I used to log into a local box, run an unpopular window manager on a remote server, and then spread my workload over a number of remote machines. Terminals, email, gui apps, and yes, the cheesy web browser of the time. Seamlessly. (No desktop-in-a-window. Same files everywhere (Thanks, NFS!), same apps (more work to set up than in Plan 9, but didn't have Plan 9's disadvantages, either) everywhere. And that was half a decade before Windows NT.) |
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Good point. Still, from 2020 both “available for 21 years” and “available for 33 years” more or less equal to “available since forever”.
> is a completely different beast than remote desktop systems
Pretty much the same. I think you’re confusing remote desktop with VNC, TeamViewer and similar. RDP doesn’t just send bitmaps, it sends GDI draw commands, later versions supplemented them with DirectX9 and D3D11 draw calls. The server implements that by replacing GPU driver with a special version which sends draw commands to connected client, as opposed to rendering stuff on the display.