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From: brett@visix.com (Brett Bourbin)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Dialup X
Message-ID: <1991Mar5.150014.14142@visix.com>
Date: 5 Mar 91 15:00:14 GMT
References: <19910130175219.2.BARMAR@OCCAM.THINK.COM> <9101310200.AA09703@eng1.sequent.com>
Organization: Visix Software Inc., Reston, VA
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In article <9101310200.AA09703@eng1.sequent.com> shap@sequent.COM (Shap Shapiro) writes:
>>   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.

>Personally, I like the NCD approach. When I take an NCD home or on the road,
>then I can use a modem and/or serial line hookup and run Xremote. I can also
>take the same NCD into work, plug it into the net, and use it like a normal X
>terminal with no extra process (i.e. Xremote) running around on the host
>system.

Well, it really depends on what you wish to use the Xterm for.  If you need
a Xterm to use at home over a "slow" 9600 baud modem, I would personally
pick one that had memory on the actual Xterm and running the Xserver software
on the Xterm.  If I had a bunch of Xterms in the same place as a compute
server and was running a "fast" serial link to them (lets say my building
does not have any type of ethernet), I would like to utilize the servers
memory and buy very cheap Xterms.

The speed is not only a function of were the memory is, but the compression
routines and WHAT they are compressing (X protocol or something else).

I have worked with both types, and like everything in life, they both have
their uses.

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