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Xref: sserve comp.os.misc:3629 comp.os.linux.misc:32602 comp.os.386bsd.misc:4608 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!library.ucla.edu!galaxy.ucr.edu!jjs From: jjs@dostoevsky.ucr.edu (Joe Sloan) Newsgroups: comp.os.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Interested in PowerPC for Linux / FreeBSD / NetBSD? Date: 31 Dec 1994 02:44:30 GMT Organization: University of Calfornia at Riverside Lines: 34 Message-ID: <3e2gie$61@galaxy.ucr.edu> References: <3dv5oj$ibd@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu> <NEWTNews.21154.788736098.muzaffer@omer1.smixedsignal.com> <D1LDsw.76n@bonkers.taronga.com> <3dveeu$49b@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: dostoevsky.ucr.edu In article <3dveeu$49b@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>, Martin v.Loewis <loewis@cs.tu-berlin.de> wrote: > >Well NT does the same thing. You can run X programs on NT, and you can have >X programs running anywhere display their output on NT. >You can (using an emulator) run NT programs on a un*x system. The only thing >you cannot do is to run an NT GUI applicationg on NT and display the output >on a unix system. How would you implement that? And why do you want to do >this in the first place? If you are a UNIX user, this sort of thing is old hat - one often wants to run an X app on a remote UNIX machine.... But NT can not do that - You can't even get a proper implementation of rlogin & telnet on NT, how could NT possibly handle X? But, there is hope - Tektronix is releasing an upgrade to NT which makes it more UNIX-like by addressing 2 of the more obvious weaknesses of NT: 1. It makes NT multiuser (well, 10 users...) 2. It gives NT the ability to display it's GUI programs on remote X terminals, in an X-like manner If NT upgrades like this keep appearing, perhaps it will someday be on a level with linux (but of course at much greater cost)... -- jjs@wintermute.ucr.edu / You can't figure out how to A linux machine! because a 486 / ACCELERATE your Windoze NT box? is a terrible thing to waste! / -9.8 m/s^2 works quite well!!! -- jjs@wintermute.ucr.edu / You can't figure out how to A linux machine! because a 486 / ACCELERATE your Windoze NT box? is a terrible thing to waste! / -9.8 m/s^2 works quite well!!!