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Xref: sserve comp.unix.sys5.r4:8981 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:7936 comp.unix.misc:15348 comp.unix.bsd:15781 comp.sys.powerpc:30884 comp.sys.intel:27493 comp.os.misc:3628 comp.os.linux.misc:32579 comp.os.linux.development:21896 comp.os.386bsd.misc:4606 comp.os.386bsd.development:2945 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 From: bob@ibrox.demon.co.uk (Bob Goddard) Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!demon!ibrox!bob Subject: Re: Interested in PowerPC for Linux / FreeBSD / NetBSD? Followup-To: 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 X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Organization: home, drunk underneath the table References: <3dv5oj$ibd@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu> <NEWTNews.21154.788736098.muzaffer@omer1.smixedsignal.com> X-Posting-Host: ibrox.demon.co.uk Date: Sat, 31 Dec 1994 18:18:20 +0000 Message-ID: <1994Dec31.181820.3483@ibrox.demon.co.uk> Sender: usenet@demon.co.uk Lines: 42 muzaffer@smixedsignal.com wrote: : In article <3dv5oj$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). : Muzaffer Can a system running NT display a native application running on another system running NT or WFW 3.1 ? That is native to native. A company I know got NT for exactly this purpose, they now have a bit of a white elephant on their hands as it was bought on that assumption. Anyway I thought NT was only supposed to be a file server much like Netware. -- Bob Goddard BSc Computing (Hons) student @ Napier University, Edinburgh looking for a job after June 1995.