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From: dwl@hare.udev.cdc.com (Daren W Latham)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Dialup X
Keywords: X slip
Message-ID: <30163@shamash.cdc.com>
Date: 30 Jan 91 15:49:49 GMT
References: <11594@helios.TAMU.EDU> <1991Jan30.054856.9295@Think.COM>
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In article <1991Jan30.054856.9295@Think.COM>, barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) writes:
|> 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.
|> 

  XRemote from NCD doesn't actually run the server on the host, there is a
  helping program on the host which accepts X connections for the remote
  server, it then multiplexes the connections into one data stream and
  compresses the data stream before sending it across the modem.

  At the remote end, the terminal uncompresses and unmultiplexes the data
  stream and processes the information as if it were local.

    -- Daren

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