Dear experts,
I might be showing my ignorance, but surely there must be a piece of software
around that enables simple X-window applications (like dxmail or dxterm) to run
extremely fast remotely via a modem.
My experience is that to run X-applications remotely via a modem is EXTREMELY
slow. For example, I find that it takes 20 seconds just to throw up a dxterm
window when I use DEC's Excursion software on an Alpha XL 266 (windows NT)
connected to an Alpha 3000-600 (running DecUnix) with a 28,800 bps modem.
DXmail is even worse, taking about 40 sec to appear. This seems to me ridiculous
when running such standard DEC X-windows on two DEC machines. Surely one does
not need to send every single pixel of a dxmail window down a modem line. If the
local machine knew what a dxmail window looks like, it would only need to
receive simple ASCII text to produce a local copy of the remote dxmail window,
and it should be able to do that in a fraction of a second!
Am I dreaming, or is there indeed a software product that is intelligent enough
to know about standard window formats like dxterm and dxmail?
Thanks in advance,
Boris Blankleider
Physics Dept
Flinders University
Bedford Park
South Australia
Received on Mon Apr 01 1996 - 18:08:11 NZST