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Peter da Silva notes:

> Rather than a pendulum swing back away from local computing, I consider
> the X terminal an abberation caused by the poor factoring of computation
> and bandwidth requirements in the X protocol.

On the other hand the X terminal can be viewed as an easy to use interface
to centralized resources.  Not everyone wants to deal with all the hassles
of running their own workstation.  I can stick an X terminal on a prof's
desk and they can use it immediately with minimal support required.  A
lot of people are willing to pay someone else to deal with administrative
chores and minimizing the complexity of the remote (user) system helps.

I certainly don't want a completely centralized system but I do think
there is a huge mass of people out there that want the simplest possible
system sitting on their desk with someone else dealing with tech. stuff.

Lindsay Patten