[rescue] NCD 88K Xterminal video adapter

[Lionel Peterson]

I remember learning that in X windows the server/client are the reverse of what we traditionally think of... the box in the server room is the "client" and the box on your desktop is the "server". The logic behind this is the box on your desktop is "serving up" the session to the end user. I may be wrong, I haven't spoken or even thought about this in any meaningful way for the past decade...

The issue would be that it is more efficient to to send a character string to a x terminal, than to send a bit map of each character in the text string to the x terminal. Your x windows session 'should' be fed a *description* of what to display, not a bitmap *vidro stream* of what to display, the latter uses much, much more bandwidth.

Ken

> On Mar 28, 2023, at 08:49, Liam Proven via rescue <rescue at sunhelp.org> wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 26 Mar 2023 at 19:29, Dennis Boone via rescue
> <rescue at sunhelp.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Virtually everything other than
>> xterm these days insists on rendering fonts server-side, making it
>> utterly painful to use even over gig-E.
> 
> I do not know much of the low-level stuff of X11 at all. Why is this bad?
> 
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