[Info-vax] openvms and xterm

[Oswald Knoppers]

On Mon, 22 Apr 2024 19:06:44 -0500, Grant Taylor wrote:

> 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.
>   }:-)

And over LAT as well :-)

Oswald