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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: 31 Dec 1994 04:13:50 GMT
Organization: University of Calfornia at Riverside
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References: <3dv5oj$ibd@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu> <3dveeu$49b@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> <3e2gie$61@galaxy.ucr.edu> <D1noD9.Ht4@bonkers.taronga.com>
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In article <D1noD9.Ht4@bonkers.taronga.com>,
Peter da Silva <peter@bonkers.taronga.com> wrote:
>In article <3e2gie$61@galaxy.ucr.edu>,
>Joe Sloan <jjs@dostoevsky.ucr.edu> wrote:
>>2. It gives NT the ability to display it's GUI programs on remote 
>>   X terminals, in an X-like manner
>
>No, it gives NT the ability to display its GUI programs on remote Tektronix
>X terminals. It is not a general X program, though it could be. Tektronix is
>using it to sell terminals...

Thanks for the clarification - I would suspect as much, but the report I
read didn't seem to specify Tek Xterminals...

jjs

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