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Xref: sserve comp.unix.sys5.r4:8969 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:7927 comp.unix.misc:15330 comp.unix.bsd:15768 comp.sys.powerpc:30810 comp.sys.intel:27334 comp.os.misc:3617 comp.os.linux.misc:32519 comp.os.linux.development:21856 comp.os.386bsd.misc:4591 comp.os.386bsd.development:2935 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!spool.mu.edu!news.clark.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!news.u.washington.edu!sinan From: sinan@u.washington.edu (Sinan Karasu) 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: 30 Dec 1994 00:03:14 GMT Organization: University of Washington, Seattle Lines: 42 Message-ID: <3dvio2$8oe@nntp1.u.washington.edu> References: <3dv5oj$ibd@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu> <NEWTNews.21154.788736098.muzaffer@omer1.smixedsignal.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: carson.u.washington.edu In article <NEWTNews.21154.788736098.muzaffer@omer1.smixedsignal.com>, <muzaffer@smixedsignal.com> wrote: > >In article <3dv5oj$ibd@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu>, <ddj+@pitt.edu> writes: >> I think there's a lack of communication here. >> >> You're saying "I can grab an X server, grab an X client, and run them >> on an NT system, so NT runs X". >> >> Other folks are saying "A normal, native NT application, like Excel, >> cannot be made to display on an X terminal, so NT does not run X". >> >> What else do [they] want? I suspect they want to be able to run, for >> example, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, the standard NT file >> manager, etc, from a dumb X terminal. > >OK, but this expectation is just not reasonable. Say I have a UNIX program >which uses some proprietary graphics capabilities (whic has nothing to do with >X) of a certain UNIX machine. So this program is not linked with X libraries >and doesn't know X protocol. Can X make this program run over a different >machine ? I believe the answer is no. So how can someone expect an NT program >which expects NT graphics capability to run with X ? > >X distributes only the programs which conform to the X protocol and nothing >else. Don't expect any OS to defy that principle. > >(Of course, I may be terribly mistaken here. If there is something wrong with >the first paragraph, please tell me and I will shut up). Yes you are mistaken. Solaris with Wabi does exactly this. It converts Win calls to X calls. Sinan > >Muzaffer > > >