Remote graphics changing the landscape

To the best of our recollection, HP was the first to offer a remote graphics solution that wasn’t based on X-Windows. In the Spring of 2004, HP came up with the idea to allow users of their workstations to share a view. They called it “HP Remote Graphics,” or RGS, and what it did was give a remote colleague the ability to see a 3D model in realtime, well, almost—it’s as if one were looking over the shoulder of a designer. To accomplish this feat of magic, HP read out the frame buffer (FB) of the designer’s workstation, compressed the