Experiences with X in a Wireless Environment
Christopher Kent Kantarjiev, Alan Demers, Ron Frederick,
Robert T. Krivacic, and Mark Weiser
Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
Palo Alto, California
Abstract
Wireless computing is all the rage; the X Window System seems to be
inescapable. We have been experimenting with the cross-product, and
have had mixed results. The network may not be the computer any more,
but it certainly influences the way the computer performs, and adding
a fairly atypical network layer cannot help but expose some underlying
assumptions. We discuss a few that we found and go on to speculate
about how to best push X in the direction of mobile and
location-independent computing.
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