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I regularly ran X over ISDN back when that was a thing. Framemaker wasn't exactly snappy, but it was usable. Lighter stuff was fine. Watching contemporary RD

by kjs3 7y ago

I regularly ran X over ISDN back when that was a thing. Framemaker wasn't exactly snappy, but it was usable. Lighter stuff was fine. Watching contemporary RDP keep up over 64k was painful.

catblast 7y ago
With server side font rendering all but forgotten among other things, any modern app will struggle over a low bandwidth link well. And X has always been crap for latency, even with xcb, it ends up being very round-trip heavy. Modern technology has addressed the bandwidth problem, but has a much bigger challenge with the second.