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I used to develop remotely in UNIX systems via telnet and X Windows, eventually Windows via Citrix and RDP, nowadays cloud instances.

In the old days, machines were too expensive, everyone shared the UNIX development server.

Later, giving laptops/desktops to all contractors became too much of an hassle with procurement, giving them VMs was much easier for IT to manage.

Nowadays those VMs are Cloud instances.

Here is the use case.