Duet Display for Mac Mini Users

[amabrok]

Yep...its a full VNC and RDP client


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Excellent! Although to be honest, I have no idea what a "full VNC and RDP client" is! I'll just go with the "yep" bit. Thanks!

Yep is good enough, but here is more

RDP stands for Remote Desktop Protocol, and is a proprietary protocol developed by Microsoft. (More on Wikipedia)

VNC stands for Virtual Network Computing, and is platform-independent. (More from Wikipedia)

RDP is semantic. The RDP is aware of controls, fonts, and other similar graphical primitives. This means that when rendering a screen across a network, this information is used to compress the data stream significantly. For instance, if you know that this region of the screen if occupied by a button, with the color grey, then you don't need to send an image of the button across the network, but merely information such as location of this button, size and color.

VNC is "dumb" in this respect, and largely functions by sending the actual images across the network.

RDP is tightly coupled to the Windows platform, where as VNC is available for most platforms. RDP is also seen as far more performant then VNC, due to the semantic advantage.