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by kayoone 4578 days ago
PC-over-IP is coming and already has HTML5 clients. With dedicated decoding hardware you can even play streamed games at low latency and good framerates

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YJwekaJ6Ys

I wonder where personal computing will go. Either this where the personal pc is more or less a dumb terminal, or something like ChromeOS with a Client/Server hybrid approach.

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Another example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zJ8TNcWTyo

That's Gate One's forthcoming X11 feature. Still haven't got audio working yet...

I tried really hard to get audio out of a remote Xen VM without a soundcard, for quite some time, and failed.

Happy to send you my notes, see if you get farther.

thats looks amazing, signed up :)
PC-over-IP is a protocol. Mainframe2 is a service. It's like comparing SVN to Dropbox. Also, apps on Mainframe2 run just fine on Chromebook today (we'll post back once public demo is ready).

Nikola (founder at Mainframe2)

I know, this was just meant more as a general comment on the industry. Mainframe2 looks really interesting and i see the potential, cant wait to try out more!