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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
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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!!!