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- From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
- Subject: Re: X-remote software for the X-server side ??
- Date: 12 Jan 1993 20:09:33 GMT
- Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
- Lines: 26
- Message-ID: <1iv8htINN1me@early-bird.think.com>
- References: <162@moon.lannet.com>
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- In article <162@moon.lannet.com> erani@moon.lannet.com (Eran Ishai) writes:
- >As I understand, NCDs' X-Remote implementation is to put X-Remote
- >software at the X client(s) side (the host), and a special PROM which
- >is a firmware running at the X-server side (NCD X-terminal).
-
- Actually, when Xremote is being used, there are three components: the
- client, the server, and the terminal. Nothing special happens on clients
- (the machines that execute the application programs). The terminal is an X
- terminal or PC that dials up to the server (a workstation or minicomputer)
- on which the user runs the Xremote server.
-
- >I'm interested in running the X-Remote protocol between 2 workstations.
- >
- >What software should I run at the X-server side (which functions like the
- >PROM firmware at the NCD X-terminal) ?? Is it the same program which runs
- >at the X clients side ?? where can I get it from ??
-
- In other words, you'd like a workstation to be an Xremote terminal. As far
- as I've heard, there's no implementation of the Xremote terminal for
- workstations. The protocol has been licensed to some PC X server vendors
- (e.g. Desqview/X).
- --
- Barry Margolin
- System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.
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