On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 21:52:10 +0100, Orchid XP v8 wrote:

>>>> Yep. You still need a computer for each user, tho.
>>>
>>> Sure. But I mean, you can set up an application server that more than
>>> one person can access, without doing anything particularly special.
>>
>> You can do exactly the same thing on Windows that you do on Unix.
>>
>> Log into the windows box remotely. Start an X client and point it at
>> your display. Disconnect without logging out. Someone else logs into
>> the windows box remotely. They start an X client and points it at their
>> display. They disconnect without logging out. Guess what? Windows
>> running X clients talking to two different X servers.
> 
> Does anyone, anywhere on Earth, actually run X on Windows?
> 
> I mean, I gather that you *can*. But does anybody actually *do* this?

Yes.

Jim

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