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Re: [Xouvert-general] Network transparentcy and modules (was: platforms)
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Jonathan Walther |
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Re: [Xouvert-general] Network transparentcy and modules (was: platforms) |
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Mon, 18 Aug 2003 18:18:18 -0700 |
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On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 01:05:45AM +0000, Mark C. Ballew wrote:
We *cannot* remove network transparency. Period. There is absolutely no
question about it whatsoever. X11 *is* a _network_ protocol.
I think the reason everyone thinks its slow, is because everyone thinks that
X11 on a local machine goes thru tcp/ip. It doesnt. It uses UNIX sockets
which are very fast.
Oh no, this totally isn't what I'm getting at. I was suggesting that the
network transparency be even more transparent, by allowing different
network protocols to be plugged in. I know to an extent this already
exists, but I don't know if it is hard coded in or easily to modify.
Next time check the code first. Adding in new transports is relatively
easy; the actual transport specific code is small. As someone else on
the list said, the code to support X over DECNET is only 6k.
Jonathan
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- [Xouvert-general] platforms, Cameron, 2003/08/18
- Re: [Xouvert-general] platforms, >> G-LiTe /, 2003/08/18
- Re: [Xouvert-general] platforms, Jonathan Walther, 2003/08/18
- Re: [Xouvert-general] platforms, William Lahti, 2003/08/18
- Re: [Xouvert-general] Network transparentcy and modules (was: platforms), ballew, 2003/08/18
- Re: [Xouvert-general] Network transparentcy and modules (was: platforms), William Lahti, 2003/08/18
- Re: [Xouvert-general] Network transparentcy and modules (was: platforms), Mark C. Ballew, 2003/08/18
- Re: [Xouvert-general] Network transparentcy and modules (was: platforms),
Jonathan Walther <=
- Re: [Xouvert-general] Network transparentcy and modules, James Best, 2003/08/19
- Re: [Xouvert-general] Network transparentcy and modules, Jonathan Walther, 2003/08/19
- Re: [Xouvert-general] Network transparentcy and modules, Jerry Westrick, 2003/08/19
- Re: [Xouvert-general] Network transparentcy and modules, weigelt, 2003/08/19
- Re: [Xouvert-general] Network transparentcy and modules, Alan Cox, 2003/08/20
- Re: [Xouvert-general] Network transparentcy and modules, Tim Jansen, 2003/08/21
- Re: [Xouvert-general] Network transparentcy and modules, Jonathan Walther, 2003/08/22
- [xougen] Re: [Xouvert-general] Network transparentcy and modules, Tim Jansen, 2003/08/22
- [xougen] Re: [Xouvert-general] Network transparentcy and modules, Thomas Zander, 2003/08/22
- Re: [xougen] Re: [Xouvert-general] Network transparentcy and modules, Line72, 2003/08/23