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On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Lundgren Jarmo wrote:
> > and btw, it's X Window, not X
> > Windows.. :p (actually, it's X Window System.. but.. )
>
> XWGQWWUYEXZW!!! :) You unix people should use a bit less consonants... ;)
wht? cnsnnts? whr? wtf?
> > office is superslow and heavy. this way it doesn't generate
> > load on my box
> > almost at all.
>
> Hmmmm.... D'oh! The Appletalk thingy I was talking about was _not_ the same
> thing as network transparency, after all... The programs were located on the
> centered server machine, but then loaded to the memory of the local
> machine...
let's have a quick look.
computer x = remote box
computer y = local workstation
if i open up an emacs window from computer x, the process is handled
there, as well as the memory application uses. only thing i can see on
computer y is the program, it doesn't add a new process - perhaps it uses
some amount of memory inside X-window -process, but that's all.
if someone knows how this actually works, like the technical side, you're
welcome to explain it - i don't have slightest idea how it's
implemented. and i'm not going to start to read the sources... i have
better things to do :) (and i'm not good with C anyway.. )
for those who don't know what emacs is - it's one of the most used
editors in the unix world, alongside vi.
sakke "to be unix guru in 50 years time"
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A dream will always triumph over reality, once it is given the chance.
-- Stanislaw Lem
