From: legalize AT xmission DOT xmission DOT com (Phil McRevis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: X and GNOME ports.
Date: 25 Jun 1999 08:45:11 -0600
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guille AT iies DOT XXes (Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia) spake the secret code
<3771e5e6 DOT 52530886 AT noticias DOT iies DOT es> thusly:

>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 ;-)
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