19 Aug
2016
19 Aug
'16
6:21 p.m.
similar story, many lifetimes ago in the mid 1990's (1994-1996).
I was supporting a small ISP in a (US side) border town with T1 Internet
connectivity. I was dialing in to provide remote support using an HP Vectra
running Solaris 2.5 (not 2.5.1 yet :( ) with a US Robotics 28.8 modem. No SSH.
I never attempted a full desktop, but several times I recall running X11 based
apps, exporting the Display to my local x86 Solaris PC.
It was always slow, but once loaded and running, it was enough to get the task I
needed complete.
None of that would ever fly today. or even a decade ago.
Jerry
On 08/19/16 05:32 PM, Mouse wrote:
While I
wouldn't want to use such a combination over, say, 1200bps dialup, i$
I decided to try this.
I just set up a SLIP link between my main desktop head (a
SPARCstation-20) and a handy peecee, running at 9600/8/N/1 on each end.
I then sshed through the SLIP link to the peecee and started a terminal
emulator, displaying on the ssh-forwarded X display. (My own terminal
emulator, running with just base X fonts - in particular, with
server-side font rendering.)
It's no speed demon, but it is entirely usable. I've had less usable
ssh sessions between cities when the inter-city links were heavily
loaded.
This is without even LBX, which I would expect would improve
performance substantially but which has proven resistant to use. (I've
been unable to get anything but connection rejections out of it; I
don't know why, but don't want to hare off on chasing after that with
an email pending.)
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