Re: X on Windows (was Re: Introduction)

[the next to last of the red-hot fakirs <wil@langford.net>]

On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Rhandeev Singh wrote:

>Only, be prepared for network overload once you pull out those
>graphic-intensive apps.  VNC is raster-based; that means a 640x480 window
>gets sent across 640x480!  AFAIK, there's no compression :(

It uses (I think) something called hexile compression.  It's not bad; it's
not great.  Shrug.  Towards the end of my last job, when I didn't have
much real work left to do, I would play around with VNC.  I had one VNC
session set up that was a copy of xbiff, and nothing else.  No window
manager.  Nothing except a 48x48 pixel Xvnc session running xbiff.  The
performance was lightning quick... :)

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