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From: David Brownlee <sh391@city.ac.uk>
Subject: WinNT+X (Was: Interested in PowerPC for Linux / FreeBSD / NetBSD?
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Date: Wed, 4 Jan 1995 20:15:28 +0000
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Sorry to muddy the water further on the NT/X debate.. but
I though I'd add a comment fom the side of the pond that
gets up earlier in the day (not that it makes any difference :)
Ok, NT can act as an X terminal out of the box, but if you
want to run 'real' X then you need to bolt on an X11 distrib
from somewhere. (Seems to sun up the 'it runs X' debate).
But what it *should* be able to do is send the output from
native applications as X apps across to another X machines
screen... or maybe to a Windows 3/3.11/'95/NT system?
Bound to be too tricky.. after all Quarterdeck only did it
with Desqview/X a few years back - watching this PC send
a windows app across to a sparc running X, while it displayed
framemaker (running under X) from the sparc, plus a WP 5.2
window running locally *and* another one running locally
but with the output on a 286 across the room....
Confusing ... but it was a 'real' X system, *integrating* with
native programs.. DOS & windows...
Pity they priced it so badly :)
David
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