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Re:Impending kOS (2014) by toast0 on Saturday June 22, 2019 @03:59PM (#20251434)
This has been feasible and practical several times in the recent past. Serial terminals, Thin clients, X server thin clients, PC Anywhere, VNC, Windows Terminal Server, Citrix whatever it's called, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, steam link, etc.

Office productivity applications have a lot looser latency requirements, and tend to change the screen less frequently than games too. But current solutions are capable of playing videos and some gaming.

Re:Impending kOS (2014) by gmueckl on Saturday June 22, 2019 @04:55PM (#20251679)
Let's not forget that there are hacks like old mainframe apps that get accessed through web browsers where the web server is literally just a screen scraping wrapper around the legacy application. Inelegant? Fragile? Crappy to maintain? Yes. But it works.