I have used octopus to access my plan 9 system over links
with 150ms of RTT I admit "graphics" are mostly faces and simple
vector graphics. Considering that for file viewers you copy
the files to a viewer device in the terminal, it all behaves reasonably.
The drawback is that you get very nervous regarding losing your
system due to power outages at the university
> advantage over drawterm — unless your cpu server many
> ms away. graphics over the internet can be a bummer.
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