Re:Xplain – Explaining X11 for the rest of us (2017)
by cbm-vic-20 on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @10:45AM
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Some of our university computer labs in the mid-90s were set up this way: a room full of X Terminals that you could use to connect to the big Alpha machines in the datacenter, or the Sun machines if you needed the software that ran on them, etc. When Linux with X came around, it was awesome to be able to dial into the modem bank and get connected to these machines from home.
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Re:Xplain – Explaining X11 for the rest of us (2017)
by kjs3 on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @03:31PM
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I deployed a couple of thousand NCD xterms at a Very Large airline backed by a cluster of very large Sun machines running a customer service application. Would have been late 90s. Very successful once the network performance issues were wrung out. Good times.