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Re: VNC




On Sun, 1 Mar 1998, Mack wrote:

> Whenever someone clicks his 'MS'button on his desktop, the next free PC
> is allocated to him and sent to his display.  If people don't keep it open
> for no reason, you can probably cut the number of your MS pc's by half.
> Most people will not keep it open for no reason, since it will waste their
> memory while being left iconified instead of closed.  Its a large bitmap.

well, you're being ultimatly optimistic. when people have a window open,
they do not close it just "to be nice to everyone else".

but, the proper solution comes (or shall come) when NT will be able to
support multiple desktops properly. this can be done in two ways:

1. install a product that adds this support (soemthing with a name similar
   to cyberix.

2. wait till NT 5.0, where microsoft is said to add cyberix's technology
   and thus support multi desktops directly in their product. THEN it
   might be usefull.

(p.s. someone at work told me this, i've not see it myself).

in any case, it looks rather slow, certainly much slower then an X
application running on a remote X display. they need to optimize their
protocol to make it actually useful... i only saw this running explorer
(or netscape) over the net for 1 minute, but it already looked rather slow
and annoying.

as for the sun 98's softWindows, i could say this:

A. it was demonstrated running microsoft word on an ultra sparc 10 of the
   new darwin series.

B. the whole conference was a shocking experience (i.e. we were shocked by
   the fest they turned it into).

C. to me it seemed that it didn't work too fast, and that was on a machine
   doing nothing else, with apparently enough memory, and a 270MHz
   ultrasparc II CPU. 

so to sum things up: there's still some long way to go before it'll be
convinient enough.

guy