On 14/09/2011 05:54 PM, Darren New wrote:
> On 9/14/2011 1:31, Invisible wrote:
>> On 13/09/2011 10:01 PM, Darren New wrote:
>>> On 9/13/2011 11:45, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>>>> So what changed then? Certainly X hasn't changed since prehistoric
>>>> times...
>>>
>>> ssh port forwarding, for one. It was never hard to forward X. It was
>>> hard to forward X securely and hard to forward X without first logging
>>> in over a command line interface.
>>
>> You mean SSH hasn't existed since before System V as well?
>
> *Relatively* speaking, ssh is much newer than rsh. It's also relatively
> new that it will do port forwarding and stuff like that. Remember that
> ssh was standardized in 1995 or so, and X has been around far longer
> than that.

1995? Jesus, that's WITHIN MY OWN LIFETIME! Compared to Unix, which 
almost pre-dates binary computers, that's ultra-modernist!

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