[Gloucs] Big brother ... kinda!

[Sean Keeney]

Sometimes reducing the colour depth actually slows down vnc due to the
colour space conversion, especially on a low memory machine...

On 25/02/2008, Andrew Oakley <andrew at aoakley.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
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> Andrew Oakley
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