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From: sinan@u.washington.edu (Sinan Karasu)
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Subject: Re: Interested in PowerPC for Linux / FreeBSD / NetBSD?
Date: 29 Dec 1994 21:50:49 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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Message-ID: <3dvavp$1h9@nntp1.u.washington.edu>
References: <3d8e0l$6ve@galaxy.ucr.edu> <NEWTNews.3157.788323227.muzaffer@omer1.smixedsignal.com> <3dv5oj$ibd@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu>
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In article <3dv5oj$ibd@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu>,
Doug Dejulio <ddj+@pitt.edu> wrote:
>In article <NEWTNews.3157.788323227.muzaffer@omer1.smixedsignal.com>,
> <muzaffer@smixedsignal.com> wrote:
>>Bullsh*. As I wrote in a previous post, you can get full X on NT today!
>>I can telnet to another NT machine and run an X program on that which machine
>>which displays its output on my machine. What else do you want ?
>
>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.
For that you need Solaris and Wabi.But I am sure that Linux we'll
be able to do that soon.
Sinan
>
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