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From: rogerson@PEDEV.Columbia.NCR.COM (Dale Rogerson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: MS Windows as an X Terminal
Message-ID: <3256@PEDEV.Columbia.NCR.COM>
Date: 29 Aug 90 13:07:40 GMT
References: <DOWDING.90Aug28091147@palm.ai.sri.com>
Reply-To: rogerson@PEDEV.Columbia.NCR.COM (Dale Rogerson)
Distribution: comp
Organization: NCR Corp., Engineering & Manufacturing - Columbia, SC
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In article <DOWDING.90Aug28091147@palm.ai.sri.com> dowding@ai.sri.com (John Dowding) writes:
>
>I work in X Windows all day at work.  Is there any way to use MS
>Windows on my PC at home as an X terminal *over the phone line*?
>I have heard of packages that emulate X over a network, but I need
>something that will work over the modem.

	X-Windows is slow enough over TCP/IP.  I couldn't imagine it running
	over the phone lines.  We did have a X-Terminal which could communicate
	over a RS-232 (also one which worked over SCSI) but it was WAY to slow
	to get anything done.

	-----Dale
		Rogerson-----