Anton Aylward wrote:
In the limiting case there are implementations of the X Display Server that run on PCs. You are, obviously, familiar with the ones running under Linux :-) (Someone tell us briefly about XDMCP) But there are also versions for MS-Windows. Somewhere I still have a copy of the old Hummingbird Connectivity Suite which included the Exceed X Display Server for the PC. http://www.softpanorama.org/Unixification/Hummingbird/index.shtml
I often use XDMCP to connect to my other computers. I have also used Xming on Windows.
The point here is that UNIX always - wall certainly since the mid 70s - a multi-user OS. Heck the old PDP-11/45 with just a 10M disk was supporting 20-40 people at one development/documentation site I worked back in 81/82 before we got a VAX. Yes that was with VT-100 grade terminals (OK, Wyse-60s), but offloading the GUI-ness to PCs (see above) ... I seem to recall Intel advertising the early 8086 chip as being as powerful as the PDP-11.
I also recall claims the 386 was as powerful as the VAX 11/780 CPU. It was around that time I decided my days as a computer tech, maintaining mini-computers, were numbered. Back then, almost all the computer systems I worked on were for message switching, what we now call "e-mail". -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org