Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!gatech!uflorida!codas!pdn!reggie
From: reggie@pdn.UUCP (George W. Leach)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: NEWS over modems?
Message-ID: <2426@pdn.UUCP>
Date: 8 Mar 88 13:55:41 GMT
References: <12423@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU>
Reply-To: reggie@pdn.UUCP (George W. Leach)
Organization: Paradyne Corporation,   Largo FL
Lines: 33

In article <12423@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> mfi@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Mark Interrante) writes:

>A question on the applicability of network window systems to do work from home.
>More specifically, how dense is the _typical_ communications between the host
>server?

>For example: If I were to have a NEWS workstation at home with a 9600
>baud modem line how feasable is it for me to run applications such as
>editors, compilers, painting tools, desktop publishing etc. with the
>compute intensive processes on the mainframe and the graphics at home.
>I am not asking for specific answers or flames I am trying postulate



      The basic concepts were demonstrated with the Blit years ago.  Although
my Blit was tied into a micom switch at 9600 baud, Pike stated in his AT&T
Technical Journal article in 1984 that people at Murray Hill were running
them at home over dial up links at 1200 baud.  Obviously, it was slower,
but still quite usable


       With NeWS I would imagine you could program the server to handle
most of those applications locally, provided you have enough memory in
the server to handle them.




-- 
George W. Leach					Paradyne Corporation
{gatech,rutgers,attmail}!codas!pdn!reggie	Mail stop LF-207
Phone: (813) 530-2376				P.O. Box 2826
						Largo, FL  34649-2826