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From: loewis@cs.tu-berlin.de (Martin v.Loewis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Interested in PowerPC for Linux / FreeBSD / NetBSD?
Date: 29 Dec 1994 22:50:06 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
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In article <D1LDsw.76n@bonkers.taronga.com>,
Peter da Silva <peter@bonkers.taronga.com> wrote:
>In article <NEWTNews.21154.788736098.muzaffer@omer1.smixedsignal.com>,
> <muzaffer@smixedsignal.com> wrote:
>>X distributes only the programs which conform to the X protocol and nothing
>>else. Don't expect any OS to defy that principle.
>
>I can run Windows programs on my X terminal from an OSF/1 box running a
>Windows emulator. Why shouldn't NT do the same thing?


Well NT does the same thing. You can run X programs on NT, and you can have
X programs running anywhere display their output on NT.
You can (using an emulator) run NT programs on  a un*x system. The only thing
you cannot do is to run an NT GUI applicationg on NT and display the output
on a unix system. How would you implement that? And why do you want to do
this in the first place?

Regards,
Martin