[Gloucs] Big brother ... kinda!

[Andrew Oakley]

David Corking wrote:
>>    I wouldn't sound so surprised but for that fact that the machine running the client was
>> a 128 Mb Pentium 2, before I started 120 Mb was in use and yet it was responsive.
> I am not surprised.  I first used VNC over a 128 kbps serial cable
> link from a 150 Mhz Pentium with 32 MB RAM.  It was fine as I recall,

Bloody luxury!

I've used TightVNC happily over a 19.2kbps modem with machines <24MB 
RAM. The trick is to set a one-colour no-pattern desktop background and 
to reduce the VNC colourspace to 4 (ie. 2-bit; black, white and two 
levels of grey), only open one small window at a time, and turn the 
hextile compression up to 11. Admittedly that was Windows 95, but still, 
surprisingly usable.

And we had to get up before we went to bed, lick the road clean etc.

-- 
Andrew Oakley