Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uflorida!haven!vrdxhq!daitc!daitc.daitc.mil From: jkrueger@daitc.daitc.mil (Jonathan Krueger) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: How does the i860 compare as a Message-ID: <467@daitc.daitc.mil> Date: 29 Mar 89 22:42:46 GMT References: <222551@<1989Mar25> <46500057@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> <1989Mar28.164428.20458@utzoo.uucp> Sender: jkrueger@daitc.daitc.mil Reply-To: jkrueger@daitc.daitc.mil (Jonathan Krueger) Organization: Defense Applied Information Technology Center Lines: 12 In-reply-to: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) In article <1989Mar28.164428.20458@utzoo.uucp>, henry@utzoo (Henry Spencer) writes: >> + [blit] can't run over a network, like X > >What precisely do you mean, "over a network"? If you mean, with the >graphic interaction remote from the application process, that is *exactly* >how Blits work, necessarily so, because the Blit is a terminal and is not >capable of running the application code. I believe he meant not necessarily connected to a specfic host. -- Jon --