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To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (1322)3/15/1999 4:00:00 PM
From: Mitch Blevins  Respond to of 2617
 
>>Anyway several issues back in the Linux Journal there was an article of an X ... hmmm, I'll call it a layer that decreased needed X bandwidth by understanding the protocol and caching.<<

Good memory. It was September 1998 issue.... Differential X Protocol Compression. You can view the web page at
ccwf.cc.utexas.edu

-Mitch



To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (1322)3/16/1999 10:53:00 AM
From: Michael L. Voorhees  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 2617
 
Thomas Watson: the internal codename for the project was "Broadway". The homepage is "http://www.x.org" and the they have simply renamed Broadway to X11R6.3 and more recently X11R6.4. X is cool.