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From: peter@bonkers.taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Interested in PowerPC for Linux / FreeBSD / NetBSD?
Followup-To: comp.os.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc
Organization: Taronga Park BBS
Message-ID: <D1LDsw.76n@bonkers.taronga.com>
References: <3dv5oj$ibd@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu> <NEWTNews.21154.788736098.muzaffer@omer1.smixedsignal.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 1994 21:46:07 GMT
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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?