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From: jjs@dostoevsky.ucr.edu (Joe Sloan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sys5.r4,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd,comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.intel,comp.os.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: Re: Interested in PowerPC for Linux / FreeBSD / NetBSD?
Date: 29 Dec 1994 06:07:45 GMT
Organization: University of Calfornia at Riverside
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Message-ID: <3dtjnh$r7u@galaxy.ucr.edu>
References: <3d8e0l$6ve@galaxy.ucr.edu> <NEWTNews.3157.788323227.muzaffer@omer1.smixedsignal.com>
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In article <NEWTNews.3157.788323227.muzaffer@omer1.smixedsignal.com>,
 <muzaffer@smixedsignal.com> wrote:
>
>In article <3d8e0l$6ve@galaxy.ucr.edu>, <jjs@dostoevsky.ucr.edu> writes:
>> As to your assertion that it is possible to have a full implementation 
>> of X on NT, I will allow that it may someday be possible - but the radical 
>> changes required to accomplish this would be extremely costly, and in the 
>> end, we would probably have something very different from NT as we know it...
>
>Bullsh*. As I wrote in a previous post, you can get full X on NT today!
>I can telnet to another NT machine and run an X program on that which machine
>which displays its output on my machine. What else do you want ?

I suspect that you are bluffing, sir. 
Tektronix has just released, or is on the verge of releasing, a major 
triumph of software engineering genius which makes Windoze NT multiuser, 
and purports to allow NT to run X, as if it were a real UNIX.... 
Pray tell, why would Tektronix invest so much time and effort into 
addressing a couple of glaring weaknesses in NT if you say NT is already 
multiuser and fully capable of running X???

The internet community awaits your answer...

jjs

--
 jjs@wintermute.ucr.edu            / You can't figure out how to
 A linux machine! because a 486    / ACCELERATE your Windoze NT box?
 is a terrible thing to waste!     / -9.8 m/s^2 works quite well!!!