re asynchronous x windows in ellis nova ellis nova gmi edu r stewart ellis writes is there anyway to use x windows over an async line clearly you could use x it is x window no it isn t it is the x window system or x or x or any of a number of other designations accepted by the x consortium in fact doing man x on pretty much any x machine will tell you the x consortium requests that the following names be used when referring to this software x x window system x version x window system version x there is no such thing as x windows or x window despite the repeated misuse of the forms by the trade rags this probably tells you something about how much to trust the trade rags if they can t even get the name of the window system right why should one trust anything else they have to say with regard to dialup x implementations there are several you can buy serial x terminals from a couple of companies including both graphon and ncd in fact i m composing this from an ncd running x over serial lines across kbaud connection ncd also sells a software only package that provides xremote which is ncd s implementation of serial x for pc s there may be other such software packages available x r is supposed to include a standardized compression scheme for running x over low speed connections it s called low bandwidth x lbx and is based on improved versions of the techniques used in ncd s xremote it seems likely that once lbx is released as a consortium standard there will be several vendors willing to supply implementations for various sorts of hardware followups directed to comp windows x matt landau waiting for a flash of enlightenment matt centerline com in all this blood and thunder
