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To: Mitch Blevins who wrote (1291)	3/12/1999 2:51:00 PM
From: Rar	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2617

>>X-windows legacy<< On E.'s comment: "It was built fro a previous era and multiple machines and a client server paradigm that we do not use in the PC Linux world." I think that is the diammetric opposite of what is happening now. More applications are becoming network-centric rather than PC-centric. We need a networked graphical display system. For practical purposes X is great on many terms. What is really problematic about it is network traffic. Despite the creation of LBX, etc., X causes far too much traffic on a network. There have been a number of protocol development efforts that improve on the X protocol design like ICA, RDP, AIP, etc. Application processing power is becoming less of an issue as systems get more powerful (CPU & graphics) but so far, networking is still cause for bottlenecks.