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Re:The Failure of the iPad by p1necone on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @05:50PM (#22186852)
I don't think remoting in to an entirely different device really counts as a workaround, that's just using a different device because the iPad can't do it.
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Re:The Failure of the iPad by NikolaeVarius on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @06:20PM (#22187125)
I'll tell all those people using thin clients that they are doing it wrong
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Re:The Failure of the iPad by p1necone on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @06:52PM (#22187376)
If someone tried to sell me a thin client "pro" and told me it would replace my desktop PC I'd complain too.
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Re:The Failure of the iPad by nessus42 on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @08:28PM (#22188087)
Plan 9 was designed to work with Blit (or similar) terminals, which were basically thin-clients that would be backed by a Plan 9 server cloud.

On the other hand, maybe there's a good reason that Plan 9 never caught on.

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