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From: dc@ncd.COM (Dave Cornelius)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Dialup X
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Date: 30 Jan 91 16:10:47 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?
>
>Date: 30 Jan 91 05:48:56 GMT
>From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
>
>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.

The NCD and GraphOn approaches differ in that NCD has a real
X server in the terminal, and compresses real X protocol over
the serial line, whereas GraphOn runs the full X server in the host,
and extends the monochrome frame buffer drawing primitives over
the serial line (along with keyboard and mouse support).

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