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Re: X-win more effiecient than Win95?



On Tue, 13 Jan 1998, Rick Jones wrote:

> This is somewhat incorrect, George.  Yes. X uses a protocol called XDMCP to
> allow xfer's of information, as you have explained, between local and remote
> machines.  And X uses sockets and protocols when used locally.  But it is no
> different than Windows.  They are both Graphical User Interfaces (GUI's).

Without widget sets and a window manager, Simply running an X server on
your machine is rather useless.  


George Bonser 
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