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From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Dialup X
Keywords: X slip
Message-ID: <1991Jan30.054856.9295@Think.COM>
Date: 30 Jan 91 05:48:56 GMT
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In article <11594@helios.TAMU.EDU> ron@cs.tamu.edu (Ron J. Theriault) writes:
>   Is SLIP the only way to provide communication between a
>compute server running X clients, and a 'dumb' dialup
>X terminal?

No.  Both NCD and GraphOn provide alternatives to this.  They run the X
server on the dialup host, and it uses an optimized protocol to forward the
window operations to the X terminal.  GraphOn's OptimaX terminal only works
this way.  NCD X terminals can get this as an option, called Xremote.

I don't think either protocol is published.  However, I think I heard last
year that there was work going on to develop a standard protocol for this.
Hopefully NCD and GraphOn are involved in the standardization effort.
--
Barry Margolin, Thinking Machines Corp.

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