[SDL] SDL for applications?

[Ray Kelm]

Matt Busigin wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 09:35:11AM -0700, David wrote:
> >       But yes, running and SDL app over the network is bad
> >       in traditional X style... but then again I wouldn't think
> >       of running Quake like that :)
> 
> On the contrary, I used to run Quake all of the time over the network, and
> it was actually faster that running locally for me at the time.  It doesn't
> work well over 10Mb, but it flies over 100Mb.  :)
> 
>                         Cheers,
>                                 Matt

Quake, or any other OpenGL app, is not the same thing. GL apps send GLX
requests which are rendered locally. SDL apps push bitmaps over the
wire.