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From: muzaffer@smixedsignal.com
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Subject: Re: Interested in PowerPC for Linux / FreeBSD / NetBSD?
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In article <D1LDsw.76n@bonkers.taronga.com>, <peter@bonkers.taronga.com> 
writes:
> 
> 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?
> 
Because you are talking about win16 programs running emulated. So the 
emulator can use the X protocol for the display requirements of the
win16 apps. And there is unsolvable technical reason why NT's GDI
shouldn't support distribution either but it is not there right now.

Muzaffer