[Beowulf] OT, X11 editor which works well for very remote systems?

[John Hearns]

Tony, I really did not mean to shoot you down. Yes thin terminals, but they
have smart processing.
And hello from a sunny Kobenhavn.


On 7 June 2018 at 10:05, Tony Brian Albers <tba at kb.dk> wrote:

> I see, so quite a bit more than what SR's could.
>
> Thanks for the clarification.
>
> /tony
>
> On 2018-06-07 09:29, John Hearns via Beowulf wrote:
> > Tony, not to be rude but not really.
> > Teradici is more than thin terminals. They apply smart compression,
> > which I am told compresses textual parts of the screen differently to
> > graphics.
> > They also have 'buidl to lossless' for slower links - so if you rotate a
> > model it is blurry then sharpens up to lossless when you stop rotating.
> >
> > On 7 June 2018 at 09:27, Tony Brian Albers <tba at kb.dk
> > <mailto:tba at kb.dk>> wrote:
> >
> >
> >     > Teradici PCOIP - I used the hardware version of PCOIP with cards
> in
> >     > workstations and zero (thin) clients on desks.
> >     > Works great. Completely transparent to users. If you are working
> in a
> >     > secure environment then you should really, really look at this.
> >     > I had one customer who was working at a UK secure site. He had a
> cluster
> >     > room, and a small room next door with Windows PCs.
> >     > He would have to walk over to work on the PCs as they were not
> connected
> >     > to his office network.
> >     > First time I visited the site I recommended Teradici and they were
> a
> >     > great success - the card/terminals have options for fibre
> connections
> >     > which are again used on many secure sites.
> >     >
> >     >
> >     >
> >
> >     Back in the day (late 90's) that technology was known as SunRay
> >     Terminals ;)
> >
> >     --
> >     Tony Albers
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