From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: tfb@tfeb.org (Tim Bradshaw) Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 16:29:25 +0000 Subject: [TUHS] X, Suntools, and the like In-Reply-To: <20170317162107.GI5720@mcvoy.com> References: <4227EA32-12C2-46D1-B683-88812D1E5168@tfeb.org> <3B3776C9-1B22-4143-A4F5-0BEA13C79505@tfeb.org> <20170315164006.GC26286@wopr> <20170316230455.GA21805@naleco.com> <20170317001331.GO5720@mcvoy.com> <30254e4d-df07-e060-11ed-f0e6a5a78dc8@kilonet.net> <20170317162107.GI5720@mcvoy.com> Message-ID: On 17 Mar 2017, at 16:21, Larry McVoy wrote: > > Unless VNC has evolved it's just nowhere near as snappy as RDP. Can anyone > speak to that? There are variants of the protocol and some of the commercial clients & servers were significantly faster than the original one, but my impression was that RDP was better. VNC doesn't do anything like the same job as X of course: any screen-or-window-image-shipping protocol like that would need an enormous amount of extra baggage on the side of it to do so. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: