Windows and X Windows
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Identify the similarities to Windows and X Windows.
Include: Advantages to both, disadvantages to both and which one you prefer and why.
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The solution identifies the similarities to Windows and X Windows.
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X-Windows' original purpose was to allow users of the newly emerging graphic terminals to access remote graphics workstations without regard to the workstation's operating system or the hardware.
X-Windows allows a graphical terminal user to make use of remote resources on the network as if they were all located locally to the user by running a single module of software called the X server. The software running on the remote machine is called the client application. X-Windows' network transparency protocols allow the display and input portions of any application to be separated from the remainder of the application and 'served up' to ...
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