Le 15/09/2011 10:12, Invisible a écrit :
> 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!

Not only, but current ssh is version 2, which leave the status of draft
only in 2006; (1.99 is drafted version 2)

ssh of 1995 was version 1 and limited to remote shell (with very limited
inband file transfer).

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