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That stipple background with the X cursor triggered many positive emotions. Like getting a remote X display to work. Another memory: Hummingbird X Server "eXceed" on Windows (NT I guess).

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I remember eXceed being used in a bank I was working with. NT was used for the office stuff and the “big boy” trading applications were still mostly running on UNIX (mainly Solaris). With Windows 2000 a bit later, quite a few applications got ported to Windows IIRC.

I remember using a 486 Linux box and eXceed to allow people to use Netscape over the LAN with X because it was a better experience that way than using any other method of using Netscape on our OS/2 Warp desktop machines at the shop.

(That little Linux box was the star of many shows. It also delivered our mail, routed our WAN, was our primary place to run IRC clients and news readers, and it served files.)

I used eXceed. Actually my boss wrote it; I worked for Hummingbird for a while.

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