Re: [edlug] X Question - running on different machine

[rjg <rjgrayr@xxx.xxx.xxx>]

Tim Day wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 21:13, michael calwell wrote:
> If you dig around in the WINE development list you can find some old
> discussion of, get this, porting WINE to Windows for the sole purpose of
> using it (or at least its graphics component) to serve up windows apps
> remotely over X11 to avoid the MS tax on clients.  Nice idea, but I
> don't think anything ever came of it.

Back in the distant past, during the days of NT 3.5 a company produced a 
commercial X windows package to do exactly this. You could run any 
windows application remotely from an X windows session.

Microsofr were very impressed. They said they loved the idea.

They bought the company, promising to release an official MS version of 
the product to help improve interoperability with other systems.

That was in 1997.
	Robert.

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