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Subject: Re: Internet at home ?
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| From: campbell@churchy.ai.mit.edu (Paul Campbell)
| 
| As far as speed problems, forget X windows. It's just too much of a waste
| on bandwidth, and system resources. It WILL run on 9600 baud links, but
| it is t too slow to be very useful. This is generally true for all the
| graphics environments that depend on transmitting graphical (bitmap)
| information across the network.

  In general yes, with regard to specific X11 products available, no.
Take a look at NCD's Xremote and GraphOn's X Terminal products.  I think
you'll be amazed at how well X11 works across the phone lines.