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- From: cq377@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (David C. Williss)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
- Subject: Re: X11 and Windows NT (was: Windows NT Report)
- Date: 10 Jan 1993 05:37:25 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- References: <1993Jan9.034843.28167@athena.mit.edu> <1992Dec23.160416.2512@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> <C0Do0q.pn@alsvid.une.edu.au> <1993Jan5.151421.24773@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov>
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- In a previous article, vlcek@mtl.mit.edu (Jim Vlcek) says:
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- >williams@nssdcs.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Williams) writes:
- >
- >>Microsoft is the only player without X11 support. In my opinion, if
- >>they shun X11, they will do so at their own peril.
- >
- Actually, Microsoft can't really stop it. We've written an X Server for
- Microsoft Windows 3.1 and plan to do NT eventually. Of course,
- everything it does has to go through MS Windows, which makes things
- slower than they need to be, but it works. It just opens one big window
- (Microsoft type) and makes that the "screen". The only real problem
- is that Microsoft windows isn't really a multitasking operating system
- in the same sense that Unix is. Unix is preemptive, where as in
- Microsoft, a program has to give up control to let other proceses run.
-
- --
- -Dave Williss
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