> although even then, the concept of running the actual code remotely but the X server locally seems strange I don't think it is strange when you consider that

> although even then, the concept of running the actual code remotely but the X server locally seems strange I don't think it is strange when you consider that terminals (including some with graphical capabilities) where common back in the day, with multiple terminals connecting to a single beefy computer. In fact there were even dedicated X terminals (basically cheap computers running an X server) in the early 90s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_terminal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_terminal