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- From: rkswamy@unity.ncsu.edu (Ravi K. Swamy)
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- Subject: Re: Will anyone buy NT?? (Yes - Intelligent People)
- Date: 19 Mar 1996 12:51:31 GMT
- Organization: Gunsmith Cats
- Message-ID: <4imakj$3m4@taco.cc.ncsu.edu>
- References: <4ef48q$rik@news.iag.net> <4i2lqg$ko1@news.ais.net> <17748100B1S85.LCADAMZ1@ulkyvm.louisville.edu> <poulosioDoI3AB.BI9@netcom.com>
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- In article <poulosioDoI3AB.BI9@netcom.com>,
- Marco Polio <poulosio@netcom.com> wrote:
- >
- >Lamont Adams (LCADAMZ1@ulkyvm.louisville.edu) wrote:
- >: In article <4i2lqg$ko1@news.ais.net>
- >: nedkelly@eagle.ais.net (Ned Kelly) writes:
- >:
- >: >
- >: >Tell me this: Do you need a Cray to edit some text?
- >: >
- >: Sometimes I think so.... When Word takes 3 minutes to load so I can read
- >: a software DOC file, I wish I had a Cray.... :-)
- >
- >This is exactly what I was talking about, from my Ned Kelly account. I
- >bet a present-day Cray with Wine would still be slow, of course, becuse
- >of M$ bloat. Last I heard, Crays use UNIX, which is great for us Linux
- >fans! You could in theory compile Wine on a Cray but I can't verify that.
- >Why anyone would want to compile and run Wine on a Cray is beyond me. I'm
- >a Linux fan and I still don't use X-Window yet.
-
- I believe the current Crays use SPARC chips. SGI just bought them
- so maybe they'll be heading to MIPS. Who knows. Wine does not include
- a binary emulator and I don't know if one is planned so it wouldn't
- run on a Cray. SunSoft's Wabi would be a much better choice.
-
- Ravi
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