As of X11R6.3 remote X displays got a lot faster, and when tunneled thru 
ssh you get even more compression...

Scott, who used to have to run Legato Networker while on call at work 
over a remote X display on a 28.8 dial-up line to a SPARCstation-2 while 
getting his mail delivered via UUCP (not sure how that is relevant but 
it just is, damnit!)... ...in NINETEEN NINETY-SEVEN. :P

...who built X11R6.1 from SOURCE on a Sun 4/110 (circa 1991 machine, the 
first SPARC desktop) ....it took THREE DAYS!

broadband is making people impatient :D

Jonathan Hutchins wrote:

>On Saturday 19 July 2003 02:56 pm, Scott Smith wrote:
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>>$ DISPLAY=my.desktop.com:0.0; export DISPLAY
>>$ xpdf file.pdf
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>You do realise that I'm on a dial-up link in a former malt-house across from 
>the pub in a TINY mid-southern English village, where horse manure is more 
>common than silicon (unless you count the flint in the earth).  
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