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Open GL could run over the network because X could.

Sgi used X fully. They wrote the book on all that, including GLX, and it was flat out awesome.

The Apps I used all ran display and pick lists. They worked very well over the wire and that use case for used a lot.

The quibbles are really getting past the basic idea of running an app remotely on ones local display.

That happened and worked well and had some advantages. I personally built some pretty big systems for modeling and simulation that were cake to admin and very effective on many other fronts.

Notice I did not say network transparent in my comments above.

Multi-use graphical computing is much more accurate when it comes to how X worked and what it delivered people.