Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!helios!n025fc From: n025fc@tamuts.tamu.edu (Kevin Weller) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: PC X Windows Message-ID: Date: 17 Mar 91 21:46:41 GMT References: <9103112137.AB17929@expo.lcs.mit.edu> <1991Mar17.180104.1653@grebyn.com> Sender: usenet@helios.TAMU.EDU Organization: Texas A&M University, Computer Science Department Lines: 26 In-reply-to: ckp@grebyn.com's message of 17 Mar 91 18:01:04 GMT In article <1991Mar17.180104.1653@grebyn.com> ckp@grebyn.com (Checkpoint Technologies) writes: > What you could do if you're really looking for application source > portability between PCs and Unix/X is to use an interface lib like XVT. > Then it's really MS Windows on the PC, but that's not so bad. > -- > First comes the logo: C H E C K P O I N T T E C H N O L O G I E S / / > ckp@grebyn.com \\ / / > Then, the disclaimer: All expressed opinions are, indeed, opinions. \ / o > Now for the witty part: I'm pink, therefore, I'm spam! \/ Why not just get Unix and X for the PC? Well, we've been using the terms "PC" and "Unix" somewhat loosely around here, haven't we? :-) Almost as if the two are mutually exclusive and MS-DOS is the only operating system for PC's! They aren't and it isn't. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Kevin L. Weller /-------+--------------------\ internet: n025fc@tamuts.tamu.edu | aTm | GIG 'EM, AGGIES! | CIS: 73327,1447 (but I rarely log on) \-------+--------------------/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ %SYS-E-BADOPSYS, Fatal system error, DEC VMS halting / "And now for something -SYS-I-GETUNIX, Replace with UNIX immediately! / completely different." ----------------------------------------------------------------- Monty Python