[SunRescue] Low-Bandwidth X

Tue Mar 13 10:12:12 CST 2001

Very interesting.  I think a friend of mine might have an SGI capable of
running pre4.0 versions.  Any of you happen to still have the install
media for such old machines (it's a 4D/20)?

--
Joshua Boyd

On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Bill Bradford wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 11:18:26AM -0800, James Lockwood wrote:
> > In my opinion, NeWS (the technology) has a number of superiorities to X.
> > The NeWS _servers_ distributed by Sun weren't always up to scratch,
> > though.
> > A modern reimplementation would be very interesting to see.
> 
> looks like SGI used NeWS as well, prior to IRIX 4.0:
> 
> http://www.engr.utk.edu/ecc/unixguide/node178.html
> 
> -- 
> Bill Bradford
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