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Xref: sserve comp.os.misc:3655 comp.os.linux.misc:32756 comp.os.386bsd.misc:4655 Newsgroups: comp.os.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!news.uh.edu!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: <D1M0rt.IH4@bonkers.taronga.com> References: <3dv5oj$ibd@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu> <NEWTNews.21154.788736098.muzaffer@omer1.smixedsignal.com> <D1LDsw.76n@bonkers.taronga.com> <3e03ee$d9h@galaxy.ucr.edu> Date: Fri, 30 Dec 1994 06:02:17 GMT Lines: 17 In article <3e03ee$d9h@galaxy.ucr.edu>, Joe Sloan <jjs@dostoevsky.ucr.edu> wrote: >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. Neither is VMS, but I can run VMS programs remotely on my X terminal. You've heard of VMS, I'm sure...