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by wannacboatmovie 584 days ago
> that somehow have great internet?

We were running RDP and Citrix ICA over dial-up in the 90s. Unlike X or VNC, Windows protocols were designed to be low overhead. It wasn't great, but it worked.

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This is streaming dual 4k video streams from the cloud. The windows protocols don’t really matter here.
> This is streaming dual 4k video streams from the cloud. The windows protocols don’t really matter here.

Compression was never an issue. Just look at youtube.

YouTube doesn’t have to deal with the same latency, or deal with representing lots of text.

Streaming like this is much harder than folks pretend it is.