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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.misc:32775 comp.os.386bsd.misc:4660 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!hpg30a.csc.cuhk.hk!night.primate.wisc.edu!ames!lll-winken.llnl.gov!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!internex.net!usenet From: muzaffer@smixedsignal.com Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Interested in PowerPC for Linux / FreeBSD / NetBSD? Date: Fri, 30 Dec 94 09:18:13 PDT Organization: InterNex Information Services, Inc. Lines: 34 Message-ID: <NEWTNews.32288.788808358.muzaffer@omer1.smixedsignal.com> References: <SLAVITCH.94Dec30100701@deanna.development.bcsc.bell.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: omer1.smixedsignal.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Newsreader: NEWTNews & Chameleon -- TCP/IP for MS Windows from NetManage In article <SLAVITCH.94Dec30100701@deanna.development.bcsc.bell.ca>, > Yes there is. DesqView/X allows X clients to run Windoze apps over an > X terminal, and SoftWindows for Unix does the same, although they > approach it in totally different, but similar ways. DesqView makes > the graphic window display exportable via X, while Softwindows is an > x-based windows emulator. So it can be done. But Microsoft hasn't > done it. > > The proprietary graphics capablilites you speak of are a function of > Windows, not of the application. Graphics capabiliuties are a function > of the Windows API and are supported by windows DLL's. This allows > others to develop underlying kernels that give the interface > of the windows API. Take WINE for example, it allows lunix-heads to > run Windows apps over Linux. OK I understand that replacing the graphics implementation from beneath the app by emulating it is an option (or by rewriting the libraries to conform to X protocol). But again this says nothing about NT's capabilities to run X apps. NT runs X apps but it doesn't spend the extra effort of running non-X apps over the network. Also as someone said "If you want X, you know where to go" Normally people don't need to run their apps over the network (because of performance and ease of use reasons) but when you have such a need (like running a FES program on a Cray) you can write that for X and use it with NT already. Muzaffer