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by cbm-vic-20
1374 days ago
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> my understanding is that the whole X11 is network transparent thing worked great when apps used the X11 drawing primitives. It did. It was awesome to be able to run one of the expensive academic apps from any X terminal on campus. Network security was largely non-existent then, and you could run X apps not just across campus but across the Internet. I remember a really early web page that had a text field (for your host name) and a button that would start a particular app on their side and would display on your local X server. It wasn't very fast. Anyway, all that died as Athena and Motif began to look dated as newer applications in the mid-90s started using more and more bitmaps. |
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