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Xref: sserve comp.windows.x.i386unix:8140 comp.os.linux.misc:11667 comp.os.386bsd.apps:1091 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!library.ucla.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!emory!news-feed-2.peachnet.edu!gallifrey!newcombe From: newcombe@aa.csc.peachnet.edu (Dan Newcombe) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.i386unix,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.apps Subject: Re: Wine status March 11, 1994 Date: Thu, 24 Mar 1994 13:36:29 Organization: Clayton State College Lines: 18 Message-ID: <newcombe.22.000D9C0F@aa.csc.peachnet.edu> References: <2mfun0$j4d@universe.digex.net> <JKH.94Mar19232903@whisker.hubbard.ie> <1994Mar20.183234.27732@mksinfo.qc.ca> <1994Mar22.164834.8123@uk.ac.swan.pyr> NNTP-Posting-Host: 131.144.82.16 X-Newsreader: Trumpet for Windows [Version 1.0 Rev A] In article <1994Mar22.164834.8123@uk.ac.swan.pyr> iiitac@uk.ac.swan.pyr (Alan Cox) writes: >>and IBM's OS/2 for Windows. Maybe MS is realizing that letting people >>run Windows apps. on something other than MSDOS is a good thing. >is a bit of a joke even with 16Mb of RAM. If they started shipping >stuff like Word For Windows 6 and some of their other really good >applications stuff for Unix (by whatever sensible porting means) it might >appear on my planned shopping list (in fact its very likely too) Gee...if they did that, and I could get it for Linux (at a reasonable cost), I could delete my DOS partition all together, leaving only the small fragment that I use for games. WordPerfect has a version for X, I'm surprised that MicroSloth hasn't followed suit, as it's seems like it'd be a good place to compete. Or is Bill Gates so concerned with making everything have the MicroJunk API??? -Dan