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Re:Xplain – Explaining X11 for the rest of us (2017) by destructionator on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @04:01PM (#24203631)
It is quite possible it just sent draw line requests as a list of vertexes after doing all the math on the client, which core x supports just fine.
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Re:Xplain – Explaining X11 for the rest of us (2017) by cycloptic on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @04:40PM (#24204079)
That takes huge amounts of bandwidth. There's a reason display lists were necessary to get it to work on dial-up connection.
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