[Info-vax] REST (was: Re: DECserver/LAT across DECnet areas?)

Stephen Hoffman seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid
Tue Jul 25 21:07:27 EDT 2023


On 2023-07-25 12:19:30 +0000, Simon Clubley said:

> On 2023-07-24, Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:
>> 
>> But these discussions all go back decades. Arguably, X is an RPC with 
>> graphics support bolted on, for instance.
>> 
> 
> And unlike its replacement, this means it 1) actually works, and 2) can 
> be efficiently used across the network to display GUI applications 
> running on another server.

>From a decade or so ago, a presentation by Daniel Stone on some of the 
issues with X11: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIctzAQOe44


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