[geeks] Re: Metaframe [WAS] Bad practice in the Win/X86 world

[Lionel Peterson]

--- Bill Bradford <mrbill at mrbill.net> wrote:
> Anybody else remember WinDD?  Tektronix' implementation of WinFrame;
> let you display NT 3.5.1 apps on an X terminal or UNIX box with an
> X server.

Yep - only saw it at a trade show in NYC, tried to convince my company
(selling "cosession" product that acted like PC Remote, VNC, others)
that this was going to eat our lunch, since "cosession" required a
physical PC per session, nothing shared/virtual...


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Lionel

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