Perhaps something like W could be written to work on machines with < 8mb
RAM....
And then an X Server for W could be written, with the BigLinux-server
converting the X protocol into W for display on the LittleLinux box.
Again, it won't be me doing it. :-)
> My context (and main reason for lurking on this list) is that I have some
> 386 touchscreens with 2 megs RAM each that I want to eventually make
> useful. VNC would do, actually, and is much lighter-weight, as soon as
> I can figure out how to boot Linux and run SVNC in 2 megs. :-) I'm also
> thinking of doing an OS-less version of VNC, in which case a small TCP/IP
> implementation would be very useful. A web browser would also do, but I
> have tried arachne and it is too slow. A BBS graphics protocol like RIP
> might also work but that is a strange crowd to deal with. I guess there were
> once simpler Unix graphics standards like Tektronics, and mwm(?) or
> something like that but these are fading into obscurity. I've never
> seen clients for these but I have seen terminal programs that had Tek
> graphics support so it must be pretty simple.
>
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