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From: jordan@morgan.COM (Jordan Hayes)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: X over long haul net ?
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Date: 16 Jan 90 23:20:01 GMT
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# why do i send mail to this list when all i get is about 40 bounces?

Paul O. Perry <pop@mbunix.mitre.org> asks:

	I was wondering if people thought that using X over a long-haul
	network (T1) was an adequate design for an operational system
	or whether it would be just infeasible.

I regularly use X over a 9.6k asynchronous line from home, and I don't
think it's "infeasible" -- I often have several clients running that
probably saturate the network (SLIP between a Sun and Cisco using V.32
on a Telebit), but it feels okay to me.  I also remember playing xtrek
over T1 with good results (altho I got blown away a lot because of the
latency -- they shot me well before I saw them ;-(

/jordan