[SunRescue] Low-Bandwidth X

[David Rouse]

On 3/12/01 at 12:25 PM, William Staniewicz <wstan at localhostnl.demon.nl>
wrote:

>Today on Slashdot there is a discussion of "Low-Bandwidth X".
>One of the people posting suggested that Sun's original NeWS and
>DPS solved this problem. He further claims that Display
>Postscript is more bandwidth efficient than plain X.
>

The guys who wrote the "Unix Hater's Handbook" certainly thought so. The
book makes a compelling claim that X was brain dead and mentioned that the
Sun NeWS (Network Extensible Windows System?) was a lot better, but doomed.
The book, by the way, is pretty funny -- and makes some good points about
the Unix as it exisited in the late 80s to early 90s.

As for low-bandwidth X, the VNC guys say thier stuff will work over a modem
connection.

-- 
drouse