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From: jjs@dostoevsky.ucr.edu (Joe Sloan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Interested in PowerPC for Linux / FreeBSD / NetBSD?
Date: 30 Dec 1994 04:48:14 GMT
Organization: University of Calfornia at Riverside
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References: <3dv5oj$ibd@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu> <NEWTNews.21154.788736098.muzaffer@omer1.smixedsignal.com> <D1LDsw.76n@bonkers.taronga.com>
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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, to be perfectly blunt about it, because NT is not UNIX.

end of discussion.....

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 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!!!