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From: peter@bonkers.taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Interested in PowerPC for Linux / FreeBSD / NetBSD?
Organization: Taronga Park BBS
Message-ID: <D1vrnL.Kp8@bonkers.taronga.com>
References: <3d7vel$442@galaxy.ucr.edu> <3e2su7$9n4@ixnews3.ix.netcom.com> <D1oDrt.Ir1@sedlbbs.sedl.com> <3edius$mrg@ixnews2.ix.netcom.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 1995 12:21:21 GMT
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In article <3edius$mrg@ixnews2.ix.netcom.com>,
Jerry Shekhel <jjs@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>>SVGALib is not X, nor does it make any claims to be so.  It is not based 
>>on any specification, other than the author's.

>Win32 is also not X, nor does it make any claims to be so.

A better formulation is:

	SVGAlib is not a native UNIX GUI API.

	Win32 is the native NT GUI API.
	X is the native UNIX GUI API.

Native UNIX GUI programs run over a network. Native NT GUI programs don't.

>You can do exactly the same thing with an NT machine running X.

You can run native NT apps over the network? Really? Will it also trim your
newsgroups?