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Re:IronRDP: a Rust implementation of Microsoft's RDP protocol by naikrovek on Friday March 21, 2025 @04:39PM (#43440556)
Do you not remember the Microsoft of the late 1990s?

We’re lucky it didn’t cost $250/seat. And we’re luckier that it’s effectively an open protocol, today, though there are still license considerations if you are reaching into Windows.

I was a remote system admin BEFORE Remote Desktop. It was not fun. I would have gladly paid $500/seat at the time for RDP, if that’s what it cost.

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Re:IronRDP: a Rust implementation of Microsoft's RDP protocol by mmooss on Friday March 21, 2025 @07:59PM (#43441991)
Weren't there any other solutions? (Searching ...) Norton? Citrix? VNC?
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Re:IronRDP: a Rust implementation of Microsoft's RDP protocol by naikrovek on Friday March 21, 2025 @10:30PM (#43442719)
None worked well at all. They existed, and I tried them, but they were all either unreliable or unusable because of their bandwidth requirements coupled with 56k modems.

There was no good solution for this until RDP came along.

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