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Xref: sserve comp.unix.sys5.r4:8964 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:7924 comp.unix.misc:15320 comp.unix.bsd:15764 comp.sys.powerpc:30798 comp.sys.intel:27289 comp.os.misc:3613 comp.os.linux.misc:32501 comp.os.linux.development:21845 comp.os.386bsd.misc:4585 comp.os.386bsd.development:2932 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 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!wariat.org!kf8nh!bsa From: bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery) Subject: Re: Interested in PowerPC for Linux / FreeBSD / NetBSD? Message-ID: <1994Dec29.224828.23767@kf8nh.wariat.org> Organization: Brandon's Linux box and AmPR node, Mentor, OH Date: Thu, 29 Dec 1994 22:48:28 GMT References: <3duphu$1ai@tamarack.cs.mtu.edu> <NEWTNews.7437.788735756.muzaffer@omer1.smixedsignal.com> Lines: 27 [geeze, think you crossposted this thread to enough newsgroups? :-) ] Also sprach muzaffer@smixedsignal.com (<NEWTNews.7437.788735756.muzaffer@omer1.smixedsignal.com>): +--------------- | OK, let's clarify a point here: To distribute the output of a graphical | program, you have to write it to use X headers and link it with X libraries. | Any graphical program which uses the native graphic capabilites of a UNIX | workstation (other than X) will not be distributable, right ? | | If so, how can you expect an NT program which had no idea about X to be | distributed using X protocol ? You can't do that with Unix either. +------------->8 Have the graphical "back-end" speak the X protocol even when the "front-end" is using WNT native calls. DESQview/X runs MS-Windows programs remotely by replacing the keyboard, display, and mouse drivers of MS-Windows with drivers that maps to X protocol requests, and it actually works fairly well in 2.0. (I understand it worked in 1.x as well, but it was rather slow.) In fact, the January 1995 COMPUTER LANGUAGES has an article about NT's GUI subsystem which suggests that this may be directly supported by NT. ++Brandon -- Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH [44.70.248.67] bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org Linux development: iBCS2, JNOS, MH ~\U Controlling application developers is like herding cats. --Oracle DBA Manual