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- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!hexnut!alistair
- From: alistair@microsoft.com (Alistair Banks)
- Subject: Re: Can I port a UNIX X11 app to NT?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep12.031057.28256@microsoft.com>
- Date: 12 Sep 92 03:10:57 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <1992Sep08.053621.4405@microsoft.com> <3047@accucx.cc.ruu.nl> <JBS.92Sep10192514@sun1.Congruent.COM>
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- In article <JBS.92Sep10192514@sun1.Congruent.COM> jbs@Congruent.COM (Jeffrey Siegal) writes:
- >
- >Unfortunately, you can only use one Subsystems (POSIX, Win32, OS2 1.x
- >console mode) at a time, so if you use POSIX, you can't use any Win32
- >GUI or graphics API's.
-
- This is over simple, and mis-leading
-
- The system can run multiple subsystems - a single process can only belong
- to one subsystem, but an app can easily be made up of multiple communicating
- processes from different subsystems - the GUI can be written to the Win32
- API, and the guts of the app can be written to POSIX - that having been
- said, for most people without heavy dependancies on fork(), the use of
- pure Win32 API is most appealing with its extra functionality -- Alistair
-