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Richard Caley <spt@cstr.ed.ac.uk> wrote in message
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> Almost as bad was their eventual convertion to networking. An OS
> which claims to be network savvy but where I can only use the machine
> if I am actually there sitting in front of it? They're having a
> laugh.

It's a perspective thing, network being able to connect and share data. To
actually control a remote machine is possible, NT Terminal Server has this
built in, Citrix (character based version of OS/2) was doing this before. DR
Multiuser DOS was doing it even before that and Concurrent CP/M was doing it
before a lot of people reading this were born (as it's name suggests, on the
Intel 8086 CPU). You sound like everything happened on linux first, and
still only happens there.

A lot of things that look new have actually been pioneered long before that,
e.g. Mac had Windows based GUIs before MS but they didn't invent it like
they'd like to make you think by trying to sue MS for copying them, Xerox
invented the Windowing GUI, Atari STs were running GEM as the OS back in the
80's

As for using another PC without sitting in front of it, using VNC I can
control another machine using a browser and java applet (VNC is available
for linux as well) and I've been using pcAnywhere to control other DOS PCs
miles away since I started working full time with computers about 10 years
ago. X-Servers are available for Windows, not sure about X Clients though,
although I gather Windows programs can be run on the X desktop using WABI,
which has been around for years.

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