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From: sritchie@cs.ubc.ca (Stuart Ritchie,,,2616774)
Subject: Re: (Ne)X(T) Terminals---a hot product idea?
Message-ID: <1991Apr28.062338.27036@cs.ubc.ca>
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Date: Sun, 28 Apr 91 06:23:38 GMT

In article <1991Apr28.044626.11746@menudo.uh.edu> matt@karazm.math.uh.edu (Matt  
Emerson) writes:
> bandwidth. With NeWS, you say, OK, I'm going to be drawing this dialog box a
> lot; so you write a PostScript program to draw it and handle interaction
> with it and then you download it to the server (where the screen is) ONLY
> ONE TIME. Afterwards, whenever you need to draw the box, you send a single
> little message from your client program to invoke the PostScript routine
> over on the server. I think this is a superb idea. The key is that the
> server is dynamically extensible -- essentially, you can add new "primitives"
> as you go along.
> 
> Just FYI...
> --
> Matt Emerson
> matt@karazm.math.uh.edu

But the tradeoff (there had to be a catch, eh?) is that more resources
are required at the server to store all these "primitives."

We're entering an age (fiber-optics) where bandwidth is very cheap.
Nobody I know has a 1Gbps port, but it'll come soon.  Now all our
operating systems and CPU's need to play catchup.

Yes, I know this is not quite along the same thread as NeXTstep over
a phone line, but I felt like throwing a comment in.

...trautS
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