Interesting thought:Back in the 80s and 90s, X Windows enabled Unix systems to run GUI …

Interesting thought:

Back in the 80s and 90s, X Windows enabled Unix systems to run GUI programs remotely. Because bandwidth was low and scarce, the server would send the drawing commands across the wire and the client would render as much as possible itself.

Now a lot of systems have more bandwidth than rendering power, and services like GeForce Now and Stadia are rendering entire detailed game sessions on a server and just streaming the video to the client.

It’s kind of a wild reversal.

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