Pocket Supercomputing?

[Lally Singh]

On Jan 31, 2008 5:31 PM, joerg <joerg.twinklephone at gmx.de> wrote:
> Am Do  31. Januar 2008 schrieb Shawn Rutledge:
> [...]
> > My
> > goal is to have applications written in arbitrary languages, running
> > on app servers, using a terse UI meta-language *) to transfer the
> > user-interaction parts of the apps to the thin client (more or less,
> > depending on the processing power/bandwidth tradeoffs on the client
> > side).
>
> *) So it seems you're talking about X. Don't you? (Well "terse" is relative)
> something like
> root at GTA>  ssh -X -l itsME myserver.dyndns.org konqueror

Eh, these days it's probably better off being AJAX based.  X widget
sets haven't been designed for good use over slower network links in
ages.  May as well take advantage of web standards, and we can likely
avoid having to write/invent anything specifically for the neo.

-- 
H. Lally Singh
Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science
Virginia Tech