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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.misc
- Subject: Re: Windows 3.1 and BBS software
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.214118.9603@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Date: 6 Jan 93 21:41:18 GMT
- References: <1993Jan4.165959.11691@mksol.dseg.ti.com> <3muwwB4w165w@tcscs.UUCP>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
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- In <3muwwB4w165w@tcscs.UUCP> tcscs!zeta@src.honeywell.com (Gregory Youngblood) writes:
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- >mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:
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- >> In <C0Asys.5C0@panix.com> isc@panix.com (David Koosis) writes:
- >>
- >> >On a related note:
- >>
- >> >hasn't anyone come up with a (ms) windows-based windowing
- >> >protocol yet? so that we could run bbs's with windowing
- >> >interfaces?
- >>
- >> >I've seen America Online's nifty GEOS front-end, as well
- >> >as some X-windows front ends, but nothing for windows.
- >>
- >>
- >> >do we have to do it ourselves?
- >>
- >> Probably, and I would expect it to be DOG SLOW running over anything
- >> less than a V.32bis connection. Of course, X has this problem, too.
-
- >Look at PCAnywhere from Symantec. I've not used it personally, but it does
- >windowing in VGA. All it does is send the commands over the phoen system,
- >and makes your local system draw the same boxes that are drawn on the remote
- >system. This seems like a good way of doing things. And it shouldn't be
- >as bad as trying to send a lot of picture data.
-
- However, Windows and X are not that amenable to this sort of thing.
- If you want to see what it will look like, try X across a SLIP
- connection. Anything under about 19.2k and most things CRAWL. Both
- Windows and X do a lot of graphic bitmap sorts of things. Simply
- doing windowing isn't that big a deal. Running something like X or
- Windows across a phone line is something else again. This is why PC
- GEOS and things like NAPLPS are relatively fast.
-
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