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From: muzaffer@smixedsignal.com
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Subject: Re: Interested in PowerPC for Linux / FreeBSD / NetBSD?
Date: Sat, 24 Dec 94 18:34:36 PDT
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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 ?

> 
> Have you tried linux, Sir? or are you discussing something you know 
> not of?

Yes, actually I have linux. My 486/66;24M;700M machine has NT 3.5, Windows 95
and linux installed on it. I have the yggradsil (sp?) release. I like linux
as a way to learn mach and I am trying to get a mach single server on it.
But for linux to match the capabilities of NT, it has a ways to go. What it's
missing is: multi-threading, port to another CPU (I know many are in progress
but I will wait till I see one), UNICODE, Windows emulation (I know about wine
too), multi-processing and I know you won't like this but Win32 implementation.

Muzaffer