[geeks] Re: Metaframe [WAS] Bad practice in the Win/X86 world

[Bill Bradford]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 09:54:55AM +1200, Gavin Hubbard wrote:
> There are a lot of reasons. I'm not sure how familiar you are with the
> Windows terminal service development history, but Citrix actually developed
> the technology back in the NT 3.5 days and then licensed the technology to
> MS. The license deliberately restricts the features and protocols in TS so
> that Citrix will always maintain the competitive advantage. 
> It is useful to think of Metaframe as being the superset of TS. 

Anybody else remember WinDD?  Tektronix' implementation of WinFrame; let you
display NT 3.5.1 apps on an X terminal or UNIX box with an X server.

The one I managed in '98 may *still* be in use across town..

Bill

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bill bradford
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