> Question: Has anybody ever, in the history of X11, actually run the
> display on a different machine to the one where the program is?
>
> I realise that X11 *can* do this (hypothetically), but does anybody ever
> use it? From what I've seen, everybody actually uses VNC instead.

The whole computer system at our engineering department at university 
did this. One central server. Fun times when an entire class was doing 
the finite element modelling course. And the absolutely atrocious GUI on 
most applications we used put most people off Unix/Linux for life.

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