Re: linux on nt.

W. Reilly Cooley (wcooley@navi.net)
Tue, 18 Feb 1997 22:20:49 -0800

# > Anyone consider the feasability of running NT as a Linux process?
# > Assuming this wasn't sick and insane and there was adequate documentation,
# > would there be a (unavoidable) technical limitation?
#
# Hmmm. if you managed this, you could give your NT "box" a different IP
# address to your Linux "box" and bring up NT programs on your X server over
# the network, if you got the relevant software for turning NT progs into X
# clients.

# What if a display driver for X were to be written for Win3.1 - would there
# be a huge problem with running Win3.1 in a dosemu, using an X server to
# display? It'd be a damn sight simpler than wine, wouldn't it?

A company in here in BeaverTron, Oregon called NCD makes a piece of
software that does just this--using Citrix's WinFrame.

Wil

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