History of Terminal Services

Terminal Services began life as a concept created by Ed Iacobucci while working on the OS/2 project at IBM. After gaining no interest from IBM on including this technology in OS/2, Ed left to found Citrix Systems, Inc. Ed and his team at Citrix Systems had signed an agreement with Microsoft allowing Citrix to modify the code and create a multiuser version of Windows NT 3. x. This modification to the kernel became known as MultiWin, and Citrix Systems sold the solution as a product named WinFrame. WinFrame was in every sense a completely capable and functional Windows NT 3. x server. WinFrame could function in any capacity that a “standard” Windows NT 3. x server could. In addition, WinFrame could host multiple user ...

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