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Date:      Fri, 31 Jan 1997 09:52:59 -0600
From:      Randy DuCharme <randyd@nconned.net>
To:        Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.ml.org>
Cc:        "Michael P. Deslippe" <tensbum@ix.netcom.com>, questions@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: X-Server
Message-ID:  <32F2155B.41C67EA6@nconned.net>
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.970131044129.18503A-100000@narcissus.ml.org>

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Snob Art Genre wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 31 Jan 1997, Michael P. Deslippe wrote:
> 
> > I haven't installed XFree on my machine, but I have a question.  I've
> > noticed many, many applications that require it.  If I load it on the
> > machine, will users telneting in be able to use X-based apps and will they
> > be able to see x-based screens or is that an application just for the local
> > machine? or is tha data just exported to X-based clients?
> 
> It's an odd model of interaction.  For your telnetting users to use X,
> they must locally run an X server -- a display driver, basically.  The
> display is consumed by X clients: the applications that require X, which
> can be run locally (on their machines) or remotely (on yours).
> 
> There are X servers for many platforms, from MacOS to DOS to VMS to OS/2
> to most unixes.  Only unix and VMS run X clients, as far as I know.
> 
> Is this making sense to you?  It took me a while to grok the
> backwards-seeming model.


FWIW I remember reading/hearing about a commercial product (Chamelion,
I think ) that's supposed to emulate an X-terminal on a WinDOZE machine.


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