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Comment Re:Why? (Score 2) 226

IMHO, the point of X network transparency is a no-brainer in the same way as local OpenGL acceleration. Instead of wasting bandwidth on raw bitmaps, you just send the drawing commands, whether over the network or PCIe. (It's like MIDI vs. raw audio for the keyboardists out there.) I don't know all the programming details, but I've done 3D modelling over 2 MB/s cable this way, and I can't imagine it would have worked as smoothly using raw video.

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