On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Chris Devers wrote:

> but it's super easy to set up and the main performance constraint seems to
> be plain old bandwidth, as opposed to whatever ram & disc space you'd need
> to get X going reasonably well on top of Windows... 

The real killer is latency.  I've had problems running X applications 
between places with huge huge pipes that have a couple of slow hops 
between them.  If it takes 800ms for a packet to get there and back it's 
really noticable.

Later.

Mark.

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