Re:Xplain – Explaining X11 for the rest of us (2017)
by ddingus on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @06:03PM
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Open GL could run over the network because X could.
Sgi used X fully. They wrote the book on all that, including GLX, and it was flat out awesome.
The Apps I used all ran display and pick lists. They worked very well over the wire and that use case for used a lot.
The quibbles are really getting past the basic idea of running an app remotely on ones local display.
That happened and worked well and had some advantages. I personally built some pretty big systems for modeling and simulation that were cake to admin and very effective on many other fronts.
Notice I did not say network transparent in my comments above.
Multi-use graphical computing is much more accurate when it comes to how X worked and what it delivered people.
Sgi used X fully. They wrote the book on all that, including GLX, and it was flat out awesome.
The Apps I used all ran display and pick lists. They worked very well over the wire and that use case for used a lot.
The quibbles are really getting past the basic idea of running an app remotely on ones local display.
That happened and worked well and had some advantages. I personally built some pretty big systems for modeling and simulation that were cake to admin and very effective on many other fronts.
Notice I did not say network transparent in my comments above.
Multi-use graphical computing is much more accurate when it comes to how X worked and what it delivered people.