On Sat, 28 Aug 2004, Mario Lombardo wrote:
> As I understand it, X was designed from the ground up to run over a slow
> mainframe-based net, like IBM Token-Ring 4Mbps LAN or maybe a 9600 baud
> hard-line WAN.
I think a 9600 bps link would have at least 1/9600 s = 0.104 ms latency.
(Probably higher of course.) Pinging a 802.11b-connected XP laptop gives
average 160 ms, for a one-way trip time of 80 ms. Not 750 times greater
as the numbers would indicate, but still a lot.
> Of course in those days, window managers and X had less to do.
Yeah, my understanding is that there's so much back-and-forth
communication now, that high latency really shows up.
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