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Xref: sserve comp.unix.sys5.r4:8952 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:7911 comp.unix.misc:15303 comp.unix.bsd:15753 comp.sys.powerpc:30766 comp.sys.intel:27237 comp.os.misc:3602 comp.os.linux.misc:32469 comp.os.linux.development:21818 comp.os.386bsd.misc:4571 comp.os.386bsd.development:2922 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!internex.net!usenet From: muzaffer@smixedsignal.com 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: Thu, 29 Dec 94 13:17:15 PDT Organization: InterNex Information Services, Inc. Lines: 31 Message-ID: <NEWTNews.21154.788736098.muzaffer@omer1.smixedsignal.com> References: <3dv5oj$ibd@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: omer1.smixedsignal.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Newsreader: NEWTNews & Chameleon -- TCP/IP for MS Windows from NetManage In article <3dv5oj$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). Muzaffer