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Hi,

Larry wrote:
> screen(1) was my go to back in the days of limited resources.
> Especially screen -r so you could detach, come back the next day and
> have all your setup right there.

A beefed up version today is to vncviewer(1) over SSH into a desktop on
a beefy CPU server where vncserver has been set running for a particular
user.  Everything is as it was left and modern X is happy to adjust on
the fly to the screen dimensions of the current viewer.  Doesn't have
Plan 9's elegance, but still gives utility.

-- 
Cheers, Ralph.