[SunRescue] Low-Bandwidth X

Tim Chong rescue at sunhelp.org
Mon Mar 12 07:29:12 CST 2001


> Message: 19
> From: William Staniewicz <wstan at localhostnl.demon.nl>
> Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 12:25:24 -0500
> To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> Subject: [SunRescue] Low-Bandwidth X
> Reply-To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> 
> 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.

I have not used NeWS myself, but have used DPS under NEXTSTEP and OPENSTEP,
it's better than X on low bandwidth connection.
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Tim Chong <oeyvind at mac.com>
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