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- From: fgreco@shearson.com (Frank Greco)
- Subject: X/Wans
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.223456.9460@shearson.com>
- Sender: news@shearson.com (News)
- Organization: Lehman Brothers
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 22:34:56 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec4.101028.2027@cbfsb.cb.att.com> you write:
- >We have been conducting an experiment recently to see how usable an X
- >application is over a wide area network (UK - US).
-
- Not too much luck over "ordinary" T1 lines.
-
- We tried to run apps in London with $DISPLAY back to NYC, which
- were ungodly slow (ie, unusable for trading applications). Our
- next attempt (which we didn't complete) should be to test the
- Xremote compression algorithm (I believe the NCD X-terminals
- use this and is proposed to the X Consortium as a standard).
-
- We eventually punted and put the app at the remote sites.
-
- I guess ISDN would make X over a WAN more usable though.
-
- >Also, does the X11/NeWS server implement backing store ? and would you expect
- >backing store to improve the situation ?
-
- Yes it would allay the slowdown somewhat; but I really believe its
- an inherent problem in X's design that perhaps R6 might address more
- properly.
-
- Frank G.
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