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Re:The X Window System didn't immediately have X terminals by zozbot234 on Monday June 23, 2025 @12:52PM (#44357666)
You don't need an MMU-capable CPU to render remote graphics. You don't even need much more RAM than a local framebuffer, which for low resolutions/color depths is very little RAM.

Proving this point, there are VNC client implementations that can run on MS-DOS machines.

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Re:The X Window System didn't immediately have X terminals by msgodel on Monday June 23, 2025 @01:17PM (#44357904)
You probably do need it to run Xorg though. I'm unaware of an X server that can run on DOS.
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Re:The X Window System didn't immediately have X terminals by bitwize on Monday June 23, 2025 @02:00PM (#44358369)
DESQview/X
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