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From: barmar@think.COM (Barry Margolin)
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Subject: Re: Dialup X
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Date: 30 Jan 91 17:52:00 GMT
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    Date: Wed, 30 Jan 91 08:10:47 PST
    From: dc@ncd.com (Dave Cornelius)

    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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    Dave Cornelius				Network Computing Devices

Thanks for the clarification.  When I first heard about Xremote that's
what I thought it did, but somehow I'd later gotten the impression (not
from anyone at NCD) that it was more like GraphOn.

Are you willing to comment on the pros and cons of the two approaches?
NCD's approach seems like it would make the host software simpler,
whereas the GraphOn approach can optimize use of the serial line better.

                                                barmar