On Sun, 18 Mar 2018 19:19:03 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: > >We'd all be better of if SUN's paradigm of the thin client (X11 server) had >caught on. > I have been told that the SunRay thin client was not X11 based, but used a protocol sui generis. My experience confirms this: When I had a SunRay I needed to run an X11 server on Solaris configured to use the SunRay as its display.
I suspect there is no longer economic justification for a specialized thin client. X11 servers are available very cheaply on almost any desktop system nowadays. (Raspberry Pi?) And long ago it struck me as absurd that ISPGUI relied on an idiosyncratic "agent" on every supported display platform. Operating as an X11 client with a user-supplied server would have made more sense. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
