> 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
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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"