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Re:FreeRDP 2.0 – A Remote Desktop Protocol implementation by magicalhippo on Friday April 10, 2020 @06:36PM (#22838046)
> RDP is definitely closer to the framebuffer style rendering than sending explicit draw commands.

RDP has capability[1] to send draw commands directly.

From memory it has had this since the early days. At least I used RDP against NT4 servers over a single ISDN link and it was very smooth. I can't believe it could have done that by streaming bitmaps ala VNC.

[1]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/windows_protocols...

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Re:FreeRDP 2.0 – A Remote Desktop Protocol implementation by magicalhippo on Friday April 10, 2020 @09:24PM (#22839007)
> From memory it has had this since the early days.

Found an RDesktop implementation from 2001[1] which implements the draw commands. So yeah, old stuff.

[1]: https://soulsphere.org/hacks/rdesktop-sdl/

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