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Subject: Re: Interested in PowerPC for Linux / FreeBSD / NetBSD?
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 94 17:05:47 PDT
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In article <3dvavp$1h9@nntp1.u.washington.edu>, <sinan@u.washington.edu> 
writes:
> >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

But Sinan that will still be win16 binaries emulated. It's difficult to
do that for win32 binaries.

Muzaffer