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From: kstailey@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov (Kenneth Stailey)
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Subject: Re: Interested in PowerPC for Linux / FreeBSD / NetBSD?
Date: 10 Jan 1995 19:14:03 GMT
Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center -- Greenbelt, Maryland USA
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In-reply-to: peter@bonkers.taronga.com's message of Sat, 7 Jan 1995 02:41:49 GMT

>>The new Tek software allows distribution of Windows apps using the X
>>protocol (as opposed to native X apps).
>
>It does not use the X protocol on the wire. It uses a proprietary
>protocol to talk to an X client that's an NT display server running on
>the Tektronix terminal.
>
>It's creeping appleism.

One would imagine that any MS-Windose emulator that uses an X display would
work over the wire.