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Xref: sserve comp.os.misc:3630 comp.os.linux.misc:32603 comp.os.386bsd.misc:4609 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 02:47:20 GMT Organization: University of Calfornia at Riverside Lines: 20 Message-ID: <3e2gno$6p@galaxy.ucr.edu> References: <3dv5oj$ibd@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu> <D1LDsw.76n@bonkers.taronga.com> <3e03ee$d9h@galaxy.ucr.edu> <D1M0rt.IH4@bonkers.taronga.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dostoevsky.ucr.edu In article <D1M0rt.IH4@bonkers.taronga.com>, Peter da Silva <peter@bonkers.taronga.com> wrote: > >>>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? > >>well, to be perfectly blunt about it, because NT is not UNIX. > >Neither is VMS, but I can run VMS programs remotely on my X terminal. > >You've heard of VMS, I'm sure... But of course - but NT is not VMS either (but that gets into a whole new thread...) -- 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!!!