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From: peter@bonkers.taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: X on dial-in
Followup-To: comp.windows.misc
Organization: Taronga Park BBS
Message-ID: <D1B85s.26M@bonkers.taronga.com>
References: <kiySJgG00iVCE3=0c=@andrew.cmu.edu> <3dctr8$p38@newsflash.concordia.ca>
Date: Sat, 24 Dec 1994 10:08:15 GMT
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In article <3dctr8$p38@newsflash.concordia.ca>,
Chris O'Regan <ct_orega@ECE.Concordia.CA> wrote:
>   Running X over a modem will be extremely slow.

It actually works quite well, if you don't mind the agonizingly long
application startups once things are up it's pretty zippy. Make sure you
have plenty of backing store in the server, though!