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- From: nevries@accucx.cc.ruu.nl (Nico E de Vries)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
- Subject: Re: Can I port a UNIX X11 app to NT?
- Keywords: port unix x11
- Message-ID: <3047@accucx.cc.ruu.nl>
- Date: 8 Sep 92 15:57:26 GMT
- References: <1992Sep4.133247.26225@cs.tu-berlin.de> <1992Sep08.053621.4405@microsoft.com>
- Organization: Academic Computer Centre Utrecht
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- In <1992Sep08.053621.4405@microsoft.com> alistair@microsoft.com (Alistair Banks) writes:
-
- >...
- >A number of X+Unix apps are already being ported to Windows NT, particularly
- >in the CAD field. One such was demoed at last Spring Comdex/Windows World. Most
- >people's first approach is to re-create an X-like library using the Win32
- >API.
-
- Why does MS not create such a beast? Products like Desqview/X have much
- more advanced support in this direction and it does not seem to be
- a hard task if everyone is doing it anyway. Direct support for X apps
- would satisfy a lot of software producers and in the end the user as
- well of cource.
-
- >The functions you mention above should not be a problem - much
- >worse would be a heavy reliance on the semantics of fork(), or the
- >sequential order of handle assignments.
-
- The POSIX layer will solve this? Especially the fork() one of cource,
- I can't imagine much programs needing the other one.
-
- >-- Alistair
-
-
- Nico E. de Vries
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- MS-DOS + DR-DOS + X-DOS + Geoworks + Windows + Windows NT + OS/2 2.0 +
- DesqView/X + Solaris + Interactive UNIX + multiuser DOS + NextStep = confusion
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