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Re:Remote Desktop Protocol Improvements in Windows 10 by PaulHoule on Tuesday January 12, 2016 @10:44AM (#10888029)
Back in the 1990s we had X Windows in our computer lab and it was routine to run an app on one Sun workstation and interact with it on another. This "just worked" with Linux and in 1995 I was laughing at RDP and crashy Windows 95 and NT.

Around that time KDE rocked the world with a beta release desktop that "almost works" but since then the Linux desktop has stagnated rather than advanced.

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Re:Remote Desktop Protocol Improvements in Windows 10 by runjake on Tuesday January 12, 2016 @11:38AM (#10888387)
To the best of my recollection, Windows 95 didn't have RDP at all. Neither did NT (<=4) except for Terminal Services Edition, and even then it was pretty good for its day.

This all said by me, who was a full-time Linux/Solaris (and X) user who was involved with Windows as part of my day job.

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Re:Remote Desktop Protocol Improvements in Windows 10 by PaulHoule on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @11:13AM (#10895331)
Back then we were trying to get a Windows NT network to behave more like a traditional Unix cluster so we were messing around with Terminal Services and other work-arounds that didn't quite work at that time.
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