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Xref: sserve comp.unix.misc:15430 comp.unix.bsd:15842 comp.os.linux.misc:32912 comp.os.386bsd.misc:4705 Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!otis.apana.org.au!serval.net.wsu.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!oracle.pnl.gov!osi-east2.es.net!lll-winken.llnl.gov!uwm.edu!news.moneng.mei.com!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!news.uh.edu!bonkers.taronga.com!peter 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 Lines: 20 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?