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- From: jml12@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Jonathan M Lennox)
- Subject: Re: VM386? Possible?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.050337.21321@news.columbia.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 05:03:37 GMT
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- In article <gedCD6u00WAt4=LAoo@andrew.cmu.edu> "Brian E. Gallew" <geek+@CMU.EDU> writes:
- >I seem to have lost the ref, but for those of you looking at doing
- >Windows stuff under linux, remember, you don't *HAVE* to windows.
- >You just need something that will convert Windows API calls to X
- >calls. Admittedly, this is a *HUGE* API, but as big as X is, there
- >ought to be something like a straight translation for some reasonable
- >number of entry points.
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- I believe the Mac program SoftPC uses a particular video driver on
- the Windows side which corresponds exactly to those Mac Quickdraw
- calls which are available. Would something similar be possible for
- the Windows->X conversion?
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- Jonathan Lennox
- jml12@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu
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