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From: guille AT iies DOT XXes (Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: X and GNOME ports.
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 20:59:43 GMT
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El día 25 Jun 1999 08:45:11 -0600, legalize AT xmission DOT xmission DOT com
(Phil McRevis) escribió:

>>I mean, just imagine that we have to develop::
>>
>>A BSD socket library for DOS which doesn't need Windows.
>>    +
>>A POSIX compliant thread library
>>    +    
>>A whole replacement for libc to make it MT-safe
>>    +
>>A port of XFree86
>>
>>I wonder if such a huge ammount of work would be worth the effort.
>
>You just ported most of linux but avoided writing the kernel ;-)

Yes, that was what I was trying to point out :-)

Regards,
G.

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Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia
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