Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 18th Jun 2007 17:24 UTC
"Although USB connectors in monitors appeared many years ago, they have performed only secondary functions all this time. However, now Samsung offers an LCD monitor that is connected to the PC via the USB bus and can work without a graphics card."
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Actually, it's more related to the modern SunRay than an X Terminal.
An X Terminal uses graphic primitives (lines, boxes, etc), whereas this, apparently, is more a remote framebuffer. Which means the lines etc. are drawn within the CPU, and the updated rectangle of changed bits is compressed and sent to the display.
This is much like what modern SunRays do, using thin clients as remote frame buffers. The SunRay server acts as a headless X Server, and then mirrors its framebuffer to the SunRay thin client. This is how you can simply yank your pass card out of the client and plug it in to any other SunRay on the system and "pick up where you left off".
Virtual PC essentially used this technology (but was obviously hampered by things like the 14K modems of the day). But modern things like Citrix/Terminal Services are more "object based" like the original X is, which is why Citrix/TS based remote clients are SO much better.