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Xref: sserve comp.os.misc:3621 comp.os.linux.misc:32536 comp.os.386bsd.misc:4596 Newsgroups: comp.os.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!emory!darwin.sura.net!news.sesqui.net!uuneo.neosoft.com!bonkers.taronga.com!peter From: peter@bonkers.taronga.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: Interested in PowerPC for Linux / FreeBSD / NetBSD? Organization: Taronga Park BBS Message-ID: <D1LM98.CHD@bonkers.taronga.com> References: <3dv5oj$ibd@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu> <NEWTNews.21154.788736098.muzaffer@omer1.smixedsignal.com> <D1LDsw.76n@bonkers.taronga.com> <3dveeu$49b@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> Date: Fri, 30 Dec 1994 00:48:44 GMT Lines: 26 In article <3dveeu$49b@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>, Martin v.Loewis <loewis@cs.tu-berlin.de> wrote: >In article <D1LDsw.76n@bonkers.taronga.com>, >Peter da Silva <peter@bonkers.taronga.com> wrote: >>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? Same way you implement having Microsoft Windows programs under SoftWindows show up on any X display. Wrap it in a library that interprets the Windows calls and makes X calls, then interprets the X events and makes Windows callbacks. Softwindows does it. WinDD does it. >And why do you want to do this in the first place? So you can use (relatively) fast cheap RISC-based X terminals with big screens. So you don't have to have two boxes on your desk. Getting a PC that'll have the performance of my Tektronix XP series terminal would cost a whole bunch, and all for the sake of running some random PC program on an occasional basis.