Your synopsis is about on the money. ICA sends partial and full screen updates, X sends instructions (as a very rough and ready comparison). Neil > -----Original Message----- > From: Brian Lilley [mailto:Brian.Lilley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: 13 January 2004 16:38 > To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx' > Subject: [THIN] what goes down an ICA pipe?? > > > Chaps, I have heard several people describe the ICA > connection as the windows answer to X. I personally don't > think this is correct as I understood that the ICA session is > simply sending bitmap screen changes as opposed to X which I > understand sends screen drawing commands?? > > Any help much appreciated as usual... *********************************************** This e-mail and its attachments are confidential and are intended for the above named recipient only. If this has come to you in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this e-mail from your system. You must take no action based on this, nor must you copy or disclose it or any part of its contents to any person or organisation. Statements and opinions contained in this email may not necessarily represent those of Littlewoods. Please note that e-mail communications may be monitored. The registered office of Littlewoods Limited and its subsidiaries is 100 Old Hall Street, Liverpool, L70 1AB. Registered number of Littlewoods Limited is 262152. ************************************************ ******************************************************** This Week's Sponsor - RTO Software / TScale What's keeping you from getting more from your terminal servers? Did you know, in most cases, CPU Utilization IS NOT the single biggest constraint to scaling up?! Get this free white paper to understand the real constraints & how to overcome them. SAVE MONEY by scaling-up rather than buying more servers. http://www.rtosoft.com/Enter.asp?ID=147 ********************************************************* Useful Thin Client Computing Links are available at: http://thethin.net/links.cfm *********************************************************** For Archives, to Unsubscribe, Subscribe or set Digest or Vacation mode use the below link: http://thethin.net/citrixlist.cfm