[Info-vax] openvms and xterm

[Grant Taylor]

On 4/22/24 19:05, Grant Taylor wrote:
> I've found that X11 is one of the fatter remote GUI protocols.  RDP and 
> VNC tend to be lighter.
> 
> But, RDP and VNC tend to imply a full desktop whereas X easily has 
> programs from different hosts display as windows on a single X server.
> 
> There are some hacks to emulate this with RDP and VNC, but they are not 
> native and not reliable.

I believe that X11 has something going for it that RDP and VNC can't 
touch.  That's the ability to do X11 over protocols other than IP, e.g. 
DECnet.  Something that some in this newsgroup may have an affinity for. 
  }:-)



-- 
Grant. . . .