John R Pierce wrote, On 10/27/2009 02:42 AM:
GUI over a 28k dialup? ouch. there's no network connection at this remote site? its going to be really really slow over dialup. I'm talking minutes to paint a screen at 2-3kbyte/sec serial speeds (a 1280x1024 24bit desktop is 3.6 million bytes). use a really simple theme on the desktop with no shaded borders, no backgroun graphics ('wallpaper'), etc. Sending a single full screen 1280x1024 photographic image could take a half hour or more.
You Kids and your full desktop hosted back... back in the day I worked with individual applications across a 9.6kbps connection, and yes it was slow and had a bit of lag, but it worked well enough to use xemacs and mozilla across. Also when
<snip> Man, talk about a time traveller! How'd you get a copy of firefox back to when we only had Netscape?
mark "and that was 14.4k"