[unios] Re: Networked GUI (was Posix and Networks)

[Anders Petersson]

From: Anders Petersson <anders.petersson@mbox320.swipnet.se>

At 13:59 1998-12-16 , you wrote:
>From: Pieter Dumon <Pieter.Dumon@rug.ac.be>
>
> > Yes, networking is important, in some cases very essential. Could you
> > please mention the most important features you think a networked UI should
> > implement?
>
>In X,  you can allow hosts or users on certain hosts to run programs and
>use your display as the display of their program. You can still run your
>own programs on yout screen or other screens , off course.
>This means you can run programs on an application server and let those
>programs use your local screen.
>
>You can also run the windows manager on a remote server on top of
>your own X server and then run your applications (local or remote)

These are good features that absolutely should be implemented.
(And yes, my design would handle it.)

binEng

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