VNC as an application server

[James [Wez] Weatherall]

On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, Jean David OLEKHNOVITCH wrote:

> >In principle, if the API used by products such as MetaFrame, to hook into
> >Windows NT Terminal Server, were available, then this would be a feasible
> >thing to do.  As it is, they're not. :(
> >
> Well, I wasn't talking about Metaframe, but the good old WinFrame, which was
> working without any OS specifications, no ?

Um.  Yes.  They completely re-wrote large portions of the Win32 subsystem
because it was fundamentally single user.

> As I remember, Citrix wasn't working with Microsoft when the first release
> of WinFrame came out..

They had paid enormous sums of money in order that Microsoft would give
them access to the internals of Windows NT, alledgedly.

Cheers,

James "Wez" Weatherall
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