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From: sinan@u.washington.edu (Sinan Karasu)
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Subject: Re: Interested in PowerPC for Linux / FreeBSD / NetBSD?
Date: 30 Dec 1994 00:05:24 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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Message-ID: <3dvis4$8rd@nntp1.u.washington.edu>
References: <3duphu$1ai@tamarack.cs.mtu.edu> <NEWTNews.7437.788735756.muzaffer@omer1.smixedsignal.com>
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In article <NEWTNews.7437.788735756.muzaffer@omer1.smixedsignal.com>,
 <muzaffer@smixedsignal.com> wrote:
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>In article <3duphu$1ai@tamarack.cs.mtu.edu>, <devmorfo@mtu.edu> writes:
>> 	Ok I see that you  have the hots for NT, but you still didn't give an 
>> answer to this question. Running xclock over the X servers for NT and other 
>> X capable OS's does not mean that NT runs X. The point is to take a native
>> NT application and runit over the cable to a remote X-server, not a native 
>> X application. That I can do with DOS. (realy, it just runs one app at time, 
>> but it is doable.) So can you run NT's own clock over the cable to my Linux's 
>> X screen ? If you cannot, NT is not capable of running X. It is simply
>> pretending to be able to do so. You realy have to attempt to make sence ....
>> 
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>OK, let's clarify a point here: To distribute the output of a graphical 
>program, you have to write it to use X headers and link it with X libraries.
>Any graphical program which uses the native graphic capabilites of a UNIX
>workstation (other than X) will not be distributable, right ?
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>If so, how can you expect an NT program which had no idea about X to be
>distributed using X protocol ? You can't do that with Unix either.

SoftWindows, Wabi, (and more soon probably) can do this.

Sinan


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